PARIS — With the Paris Olympics less than two weeks away, a question hangs over the Games: Will the Seine River be clean enough for athletes to swim in? Triathlon and marathon swimming are ...

vowed to make the Seine swimmable as far back as 1988. But the plans were shelved for a long time. Work finally began in 2016. To clean up the river, authorities invested £1.2 billion in building ...

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?

Globally, two billion people rely on rivers for drinking water, and a quarter of the food we eat depends on them. But our ...

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 ...

Most every morning at nine, the emergency responders assigned to the Seine ... the river in the middle of Paris, the firemen-divers scour the bottom, retrieving bikes, cutlery (which they clean ...

For centuries, the Seine River has been Paris’s dumping ground. A billion-dollar cleanup is trying to make it swimmable again. The history of Paris is inextricably linked to the river that flows ...

“The restoration efforts of this river have been a real success ... “The population growth far exceeded our clean up capacity. So the Seine was biologically dead, there wasn’t oxygen ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Olympians dived into the River Seine on Wednesday after a pre-dawn ... a waterway frequently laden with sewage to one clean enough to swim in. Authorities spent 1.4 billion ...

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 ...