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 ...

France may have flushed away £1.2 billion on cleaning the River Seine ahead of the Olympic Games – but actual sewage is still floating in it. Swimming training for the triathlon was postponed ...

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

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?

PARIS — In what French officials hoped to be the conclusion of a years-long nail-biter, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo plunged into the Seine on Wednesday and declared it sufficiently clean for ...

“With the Seine, what was done was to go to the causes of the pollution and treat them one by one. We’re still in the process, it’s going to be clean by July. The four reasons for the origin ...

A swimmable Seine is a key legacy Games organisers aim to leave behind for Paris residents. WHERE DO WE STAND NOW? The Seine was suitable for swimming six days out of seven between July 17-23 ...