Banned for a century because of filthy water, bathing is to resume in parts of the river in Paris.
BBC News, Paris
"When people see athletes swimming in the Seine with no health problems, they'll be confident themselves to start going back in the Seine," predicts Pierre Rabadan, deputy Paris mayor in charge of the Olympics. "It's our contribution for the future." Improvements over the last 20 years have already led to a sharp reduction in faecal bacteria entering the river.
"Up to now the Seine has been the safety valve for the sewage system. If we didn't occasionally allow wastewater into the river, it would have backed up into people's homes," says Mr Colin-Canivez. One event that will not be taking place in the river - in fact not at all - is angling. And yet in the first Paris Olympic Games in 1900, there was indeed a fishing competition .
"The bottom of the river is developing a coat of the right kind of weed. The clearer the water, the more the weed grows, and then the weed filters the water to make it even clearer - it's a virtuous circle," he says.Bill François enters the Seine regularly and is confident that it is already clean enough to swim in. But he does sound one note of warning: rats.
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