The river, which spans 483-miles, has long had a reputation for being dirty ... still not below the necessary threshold’. Cleaning up the Seine is not an original idea, set in action specially ...

PARIS — With the Paris Olympics less than two weeks away, a question hangs over the Games: Will the Seine River be clean enough for ... of the swim portion being cancelled.

questions remain over whether the Seine will be clean enough for athletes to swim in. Triathlon and marathon events are set to take place in the river, where swimming has been illegal for over a ...

The movement, cheekily dubbed #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin (I'll poo in the Seine on June 23), has gained traction after Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo boasted she'd take a dip to prove the river's ...

Reasons to be Cheerful reports on river Seine, the storied French waterway that was once nearly biologically dead but is not ...

Ludovic Marin/POOL/AFP/Getty French President Emmanuel Macron promised Thursday — then sheepishly played down his promise — to swim in the Seine ... along the river in order to clean up ...

"The population growth far exceeded our clean up capacity ... Things like swimming in the Seine at the Paris Olympics brought a focus on the river being an asset rather than a liability." ...