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The Louvre, offices, hotels... In the middle of a heat wave, the water of the Seine is used to air-condition Paris

2022-06-18T06:52:06.040Z


The basements of Paris are traversed by an unknown "urban cooling network", which uses water from the river to air-condition hundreds of


What do the Ministry of Ecology, the Louvre and the National Assembly have in common?

They are part of the 800 Parisian buildings where the air conditioning works thanks to the Seine.

Water from the river is collected and then treated in a factory before passing through a network of several tens of kilometers of underground pipes connected to museums, shopping centres, office buildings and hotels which benefit from this "urban cooling network". considered the largest in Europe.

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Source: leparis

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