From Jacques Chirac to Bertrand Delanoë via Anne Hidalgo, the mayors of Paris have all dreamed of lifting the ban on bathing in the Seine enacted in 1923. One hundred years later, the 2024 Olympic Games should make it possible to honor this promise many times once made to Parisians, with a telling mantra:
“Swimming as a legacy
.
Today
, a European directive from 2006 drastically limits the possibility of bathing in rivers and rivers, everywhere in France.
In particular, it imposes a quality of water suitable for swimming 90% of the time, for four consecutive years.
The plan undertaken by 27 partners
,
including the State and the Paris City Hall, to improve the quality of the water in the Seine - the project budget is estimated at 1.4 billion euros - must therefore submit to these very strict European standards.
For Colombe Brossel, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of cleanliness, lifting the bathing ban is only a matter of time.
According to her, he…
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