This comes after after an extensive clean-up operation spurred by it being used for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Read more at ...

For the first time since 1923, Paris opened River Seine for swimmers on Saturday, after an extensive cleanup operation ...

The sewer system of Paris, though it has undergone recent upgrades, is still based on an archaic model, called a combined sewer system, where stormwater and wastewater are managed as one stream.

How Paris' sewers handle 10,000 Olympic athletes' worth of wastewater Wastewater flowed directly into the Seine when water levels were high, until the sewage system was upgraded in a $1.5 billion ...

A key promise in Paris’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics was that its famous river, the Seine, would be cleaned up in time to host open water swimming events: the triathlon, paratriathlon ...

Parisians rushed for a dip in the Seine as the authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time since 1923 ...