Paris 2024: Will the River Seine be Olympic-ready? • FRANCE 24 English 

and int he thames and in the Hudson river i guess and it's normal. Paris is trying to do an opning ceremony and some olympic games like never before.. The easiest way would be to do it in a stadium and the swimming competition sin a poll like every country has been doing so far

Except the current solutions direction to cleaning the river is just adding temporary fixes to a fundamentally flawed and outdated sewage system.

​@@ThePursuitWOD considering how long it would take to update it completely (decades) , I don't see how making progressive improvements in the mean time is a problem

its gonna be the same right after Olympics, so they are just gonna waste money for now lol

Sadly that's a naively positive position. Bacteria and virus don't affect all species evenly and Ecoli the one most are worrying about was measured at 200x the American guideline and 20x the Triathlon guideline. I admire the efforts of Paris but they are optimistic at best and disingenuous at worst.

再脏的水 一段时间不下雨 都会显得清澈 因为脏东西沉淀了

Yes. The levels of e-coli rise because of the overflowing of the sewage system due to rain. The bacteria travel downstream within a couple of hours so by next day the levels come back to normal

The same happens at sea near cities. One day you can swim because it's clean and the other, after a rain, it's forbidden because they found bacteria. I wish this does not happen but I think it's an answer to your comment 😘

A river isn't a lake, that should be a big hint.

Not one day may be one month?

Antoine Marmier and the other Olympics officials should be required to swim in the river everyday before the athletes. If they don't get sick, then the athletes can go in.

No Plan B unfortunately.. But a plan B and a C

No rational person would expect someone to drink directly from a river in a major city. I swim in a very clean pool but i don't drink that water either.

As I understand it basically a huge amount of sewage is dumped when the sewage overfills after it rains

was there a few weeks ago... even though the temp was only about 5-10 degrees, it stank like grey water. as did a lot of the Vendome area

@@jakob7116 Just like in New York.

only when it rained hard

That is how sewage facilities were always done in old cities like Paris and even London.

In an interview she said she wanted to do the scene herself instead of a body double. She later regretted it due to the eye infection she received as a result.

Propoganda

I saw they had plans to make Paris greener a while ago, I’m not sure how those plans may be going or if they include the Seine.

Sandy beaches aren't natural in a city. They used to create an artificial beach during July & August but stopped because the imported sand was depleting real beaches elsewhere in France. A lot of work has & is being done to increase vegetation like trees and gardens around the city but a lot of it is unnoticed by visitors because it is in local neighbourhoods, not touristy areas.

@@pathallam986 Well, maybe a river which isn't given enough room doesn't have sandy/gravelly/rockiness, is more likely, unless mitigation is built in to cause lighter material to settle out and form the sandy beach. It used to be we wanted to get away from nature, now we want more of it, because we can and it's healthier for one's soul. In Seattle we have sandy/gravelly beaches on the shores of our downtown.

Paris artificial?? Are you were aware that when you cross a bridge in Paris, when you walk along the river seine, or into some Distrits, there is 100 of years of history behind??

@@GRbobkaina artificial = human-made = not natural

I watched another video about this on RU-vid, and it said that the clean up has taken two years and cost millions of dollars.

😂😂😂😂

Literally everything and everyone is full of microplastics.

did you listen at all?

@@benoitcransac2178 Do you trust the French authorities to do as they claim here? I don't.

Did you watch the video? The retention basin is here to hold the mix of rain water and sewer during a saturation event. The system in Paris is very old and does not separate rain water from sewage water, so, when there's important rainfall, the sewers and treatment facilities are overwhelmed, causing the system to spill over into the Seine river. The huge new retention system allows the sewers to overflow into the tank instead of the river, so that the water can be processed entirely in the treatment plants over a longer period before being released clean in the river. It's an overflow tank, so it needs to be huge to hold as much water as possible and not release untreated water into the river for most rain events. If it only held the equivalent of 3 swimming pools, it would only be sufficient for some days and not most heavy rain days. With its current gigantic size, it should be able to prevent overflow into the river on at least 3 quarters of heavy rain days. Only the most extreme rainfalls would saturate the system now. So, the pollution events should drastically decrease in frequency and intensity.

Maybe it would have been better to just build Olympic swimming pools, so the Olympic athletes wouldn't have to swim in filthy water.

The Hudson and the Potomac are not that clean either.

I think after seeing the evidence we can all agree the Americans did NOT go to the moon. Newsflash it was a HOAX

The intelligence in that country has plummeted.

@@giovannimartin9576 Yeah but they are not holding swimming competitions in it either

to be fair the US isn't doing so well either when it comes to cleanliness.

What do you mean???

​@@lyudmilanazemtseva9309 It's pretty clear. Why do you need to ask? 🤔

@@lyudmilanazemtseva9309 What do i mean? just read the rules that will be in place in Paris during that event. Probably no one talk about that overseas...people are not informed.

​@@JCJC-sg8qvthen tell us what are they

Ok. I’ll vacation at Mar-a-Lago instead. Totally normal place.