Will the Seine be swimmable for the Olympics? • FRANCE 24 English
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2024
- Paris inaugurated a huge, underground cistern today. We dive into why the Paris mayor’s office has put its hopes behind this concrete basin to keep sewage out of the river.
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Why does it take the Olympics before France sorts out the water quality of the river, this should have been done decades ago.
The UK is just as atrocious
it's every single major river in the world man. tell yourself that if Paris and France is only doing that now 99% of the worlds river are in fact in bad shape.
needless to say, hosting the Olympics allows Paris to leverage some founding from the government, and economically it should come back to the city and therefore the government.
i mean if they all fight to host the Olympics it's because there is a reason right ?
I agree but it's a matter of politics and administration. The river flows outside of Paris, which means cleaning the river can only be at least a national project for it to happen. Because cleaning the river means coordinating multiple infrastructure projects that must work together in the long term to clean the river durably, and all of these projects are scattered around different regions of France where the Seine flows. It makes everything more difficult, and the Olympics are a good excuse to bring a billion euros into what would mostly be an environnemental project without the games and force every region to shut up and listen. With the Olympics came a new law that facilitated infrastructure funding and construction, and accelerated some legal processes in the name of the urgency for the games. It hurts me to say it but without the Olympics, the river would take another 40 years to be clean.
interesting.
I wouldn't swim in it.
let science speak if it's safe and then we will see.
i'm of course talking about independent scientist not the government
you could swim in toxic waste......the question is should you?
I’m suprised the Olympic committee doesn’t step in and stop this being that it is a potnetial health risk to atheletes, as well as rife with lawsuits post participation. This clearly is for the aesthetic and even cost cutting on the part of the Paris Olympic team and the organziation at large.
This isn’t gonna work
You're an expert?...of the keyboard I see...clown
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