Chloe Nordquist is a national journalist for the E.W. Scripps Company. She has a passion for telling community stories and giving a voice to the voiceless. Chloe has had the opportunity to report across the world, as far as Milan and Berlin. Previously she worked at news stations in California’s Central Valley and Southwest Florida.
However, less than two months before the games, a local government bulletin released on June 21 reported a degradation of water quality, and increases in E. coli on June 11, 15, and 16. The report indicates the increases were due to rain discharges upstream.
President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo were set to swim in the Seine River to prove its safety last weekend, but that was postponed. Swimming in the Seine has been banned for about 100 years due to pollution from factory wastewater, sewage, and rain runoff. The government has spent nearly $1.5 billion trying to clean it up by fixing old pipes, limiting the amount of untreated wastewater going into the river, and building a wastewater and rainwater storage basin.The Surfrider Foundation, a nonprofit environmental group, wrote an open letter earlier this year questioning the safety for athletes and asking officials for a possible plan B in case the Seine remains at dangerous bacteria levels.
Civilians against the funding for cleanup originally planned to defecate in the river on the same day politicians wanted to swim to prove the water was safe. The protest movement gained traction through a hashtag online. However, with the postponement of the swim, not much is known about the state of the protest.
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