Last month, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo made a big deal out of taking a dip in the Seine River, which has historically been far too polluted to swim in due to longstanding health concerns over its ...

Games organisers and World Aquatics earlier said the latest tests from the Seine had been assessed ... promising the river ...

Hidalgo postponed her initial plan to swim on June 23 because of the river's water level and the amount of bacteria present. "The Seine is exquisite," Hidalgo said. "The water is very, very good.

Things like swimming in the Seine at the Paris Olympics brought a focus on the river being an asset rather than a liability." As a sign of that change of public perception in recent years ...

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