So with the Olympics coming to town once again, Paris decided in the mid-2010s to invest $1.5 billion in river improvements, like a water treatment plant in Champigny-sur-Marne and a 46,000-cubic ...

For the first time in more than 100 years, the Seine River in Paris has opened for swimming and recreation, following a $1.5 ...

Bathing sites will be located near the French capital’s Notre-Dame cathedral, the Eiffel Tower and in eastern Paris.

Paris has reopened public swimming in the Seine River for the summer, allowing visitors to enjoy the waterway that was ...

Some 23,000 homes upstream of Paris also are emptying their sewage into the rainwater system that flows directly into the river, Riottot said. For the Olympics, only two indicators were being ...

For the first time in over a century, Parisians and tourists will be able to take a refreshing dip in the River Seine.

A costly and complex cleanup is resuscitating the Seine just in time for it to play a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Skip Navigation.

On July 17, Paris’ mayor Anne Hidalgo took a swim in the Seine after a race to clean up the river in time for the 2024 Olympics. The enormous cleaning effort took several years and cost around ...

Paris has spent billions trying to clean up the Seine before the 2024 Olympics begin on July 26. Whether it will work is another story. French politicians say they would swim in the Seine to prove ...

A costly and complex cleanup is resuscitating the Seine just in time for it to play a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Skip Navigation.

A costly cleanup is resuscitating the Seine just in time for it to play a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

A costly cleanup is resuscitating the Seine just in time for it to play a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympics.