Paris invested 1.5 billion dollars to clean up its river, but tests show that it is unsafe to swim after heavy rains. Does this mean that the money went down the drain - figuratively and literally?

Swimming in the Seine river has been banned for more than a century because of river traffic and sewage. The problem is largely the city’s 19th-century drainage infrastructure. Rainwater funnels ...

French officials inaugurated on Thursday a huge water storage basin meant to help clean up the River Seine, set to be the ... being spat raw through storm drains into the river.

Paris mayor swims in the Seine to show its safe Paris Mayor ... It is designed to make it unnecessary to drain excess sewage into the river. New water treatment facilities have also been built ...

Athletes dive into the Seine River from the Alexander III Bridge on the start of the first leg of the women's triathlon test event for the Paris Olympics this past summer. (Michel Euler/AP ...