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269 Can Paris fix its poop problem before the Olympics?

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Coleman Lowndes @ Vox · 07/09/2024 12:45 EDT

Can Paris fix its poop problem before the Olympics?

A key promise in Paris’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics was that its famous river, the Seine, would be cleaned up in time to host open water swimming events: the triathlon, paratriathlon, and marathon swimming. But swimming has been banned in the Seine for a century because the Paris sewer system is designed […]

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