Paris seine river plan B for Olympics

[@rosesayers5228]

I’m currently in Paris and just walked by the Seine. I saw several large streams of oil in it. Making Olympic swimmers swim in that is the stupidest decision they've made. I feel awful for them.

[@theicedragon100]

Problem is even though the tanks are massive thay still can't hold all the sewage and rain water during raining so there is no were else for it to go.

[@Ugly_absorbnt]

@@theicedragon100there was an app that was developed and released that would tell French people when to poop into the water so that it would be carried by the currents to where Macron was going to swim after the cleanup effort was completed. Obviously the water was never clean enough for Macron to swim

[@ashenmoonclash]

That oil is from human waste😅

[@333.3]

Crazy to me how they only wanna clean it cause of the olympics

[@ZakBaganslover4ever9]

Right, why would they not want to for public health and safety? And yes a big expensive sewer treatment system is, well, expensive, it sounds long overdue. Why sabotage that?

[@giamoretti5985]

@@ZakBaganslover4ever9because it's all about money money money which the olympics brings a lot of

[@Zodeon666]

Yeah they don’t care about the people unless they start losing money for some reason, only then will they address whatever is causing them to lose money the rest will be forever ignored, especially if they dont personally make money from it.

[@ZakBaganslover4ever9]

Okay I don't think anyone is understanding me. I'm not questioning why the government took so long to do it. I'm questioning why citizens are trying to sabotage it. Literally shitting in their water source that the government is FINALLY trying to clean. Why would the citizens decide they don't want it clean, when it would be good for their own health and safety?

[@bordaste]

that is factually not true. The project as start long ago, the olympic is just used as a milestone.

[@merpetyderpety5032]

Update: Competitors vomited after being forced to swim in the river

[@reisakumaphd]

Wait, seriously??

[@Bluepheonix0513]

​@reisakumaphd The most recent news I read said that two athletes did get sick, but not necessarily from the river. Claire Michel has announced it was a virus of unknown origin, not E. Coli. The other athlete, Adrien Briffod, developed a gastrointestinal infection, and it's not possible to say if it was caused by the river or not. In my opinion, they shouldn't have risked the athlete's health if there was even a chance that they could get E. Coli. or some other infection.

[@bananagaming7612]

Many athletes got to practice in the river today and said they did not notice the quality of the water or did not feel bad afterwards. Also when you get to the race your senses are not focused on the bacteria in the river

[@merpetyderpety5032]

@@bananagaming7612 They used paddle boards to get a feel for the course without taking the chance of swallowing water that might cause an illness. “We just wanted to mitigate the risk as much as possible of the water getting inside your body,” U.S. swimmer Ivan Puskovitch told the AP. “Because even if the water is swimmable, and the levels are safe, there is still some degree of risk. And I think that it goes without saying that the risk is a little bit more significant here than most open water venues.” - Quotes from AP news

[@kaboomsihal1164]

​@@bananagaming7612ah yes because as long as you don't focus on the bacteria the bacteria can't infect you, it's like inviting a vampire into your home!! That's totally how that works!! Holy fuck dude you would lose chess against a rock

[@catsaregreat6314]

as someone who worked very short term in sewer management this made me do a double take. we aren’t supposed to swim in the halifax *harbour* (it’s huge) anywhere near the treatment plants after rain and their making people swim in a river that waste gets dumped into 😭 wild

[@teabean2325]

eyyy fellow haligonian! yeah athletes are getting sick rn from the waters

[@bonkislost]

i don't swim in the harbour period, no thanks

[@AcidGambit419]

They are seriously trying to make yall swim in there?! A crack head wouldnt even swim in there for the worlds biggest rock.

[@imfastboi]

I mean the color isn't a good indicator as sediments can make the water murky without there being much bacteria Tbh whether or not ppl actually end up swimming in the seine it's still a huge win for a cleaner seine

[@gmdesert3810]

​@@imfastboibut the industry around are. this water is more poluted than the air in china XD

[@imfastboi]

@@gmdesert3810 I wasn't talking about tje seine in specific, just that from a video you can't judge the quality of a body of water I talked to someone from an environmental agency on the topic about the Thames and that's one of the points I remember from that conversation I'm genuinely curious as to where I can find the numbers that led you to this conclusion? Afaik the tests didn't reveal forever chemicals and just bacteria

[@Cassiopée777]

​@@gmdesert3810 rain river in the Amazon are darker than this yet completely drinkable, and there's is no industry throwing dirt and chemical in the Seine 🤣 it's considered as a crime against the ecosystem and severely punished for more than 2 decades now, the only thing polluting the seine nowadays is the sewage.

[@_sleepy-]

You under estimate crack heads

[@ahleenah]

So… they didn’t even clean it. They tried to find solutions to keep it from getting more polluted. From _one_ of the causes of its pollution. With this strategy, even if no more poo water flows into the Seine, it will still take months or more for most of the contamination to be gone. And I don’t think sewage is the only reason it’s dirty either.

[@miminew6048]

There are literally dead bodies inside that river … I wonder what’s wrong with them for making people swim in it!

[@runitsacow]

There’s literally dead bodies in the ocean too thats crazy 😮

[@Americansikkunt]

Probably a giant humiliation ritual for all the athletes….

[@angel_cat]

​@@runitsacowyea but not like, you know, close to the shore where people usually swim in.

[@elliaustr017]

I feel like cleaning that river is gonna take months. Not days. Edit: realising the history and size of the river...will probably take years to clean. Either way, cant be done overnight or over a singular month...or whatever their unrealistic schedule was 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@jaredsmith4964]

Well they’ve been cleaning it for a while

[@bestgamting]

They cleaned it already for m a n y months..

[@elliaustr017]

@@bestgamting ive never been to see that river so idk how dirty it is. Probably will take years then. Looks massive

[@hannahandersen6869]

@@jaredsmith4964it doesn’t matter. Unless they fix the issues with the overflowing sewage system it’s just gonna stay gross and dirty. Not to mention the fact that it’s been bad for so long that it could take quite a long time to make safe to swim in. Growing up I had a man made lake near me that was permanently closed after people started getting sick. After the water was tested the whole lake was quarantined off for 5 years. That’s a small man made lake, I can only imagine the amount of work it’ll take to make that river of ecoli safe.

[@jwright6059]

It'll take probably a decade. They also have to remove all bodies, move cemeteries, and have better sewage systems. They have been a litwral sewage plant for over 5 decades or over 2-3 centuries.

[@iblamethisallonhaley]

Why are they still trying to make this happen, it looks disgusting….

[@randomnamd627]

TBF even clean river water does look like that (I live about 1km from a major river in Finland), you can't really se microbes with your eye, only with lab tests

[@iloveplumpgrannies174]

​@@randomnamd627 Yes, you cannot see bacteria with your naked rye but you can absolutely smell shieet water though. The smell of cloudy water in the countryside is actually pleasant compared to the smell of polluted water in the city.

[@Jaz_3]

@@randomnamd627the lab tests say that the water isn’t safe to swim in, they still tried but they had to stop and postpone the men’s triathlon because, I believe, too many competitors where getting sick and throwing up after the swim portion

[@randomnamd627]

@@Jaz_3 how could they get sick if they never swum in the river?

[@Jaz_3]

@@randomnamd627 the high levels of dangerous bacteria, swimmers do drink some of the water while swimming and that was enough to get them really sick

[@jackasmile6517]

I think Paris should clean the river long long before the Games😢

[@elllied_]

they’ve been trying to clean it for decades

[@Mooooov0815]

They have been trying to. The problem is, Paris is a city that has been in large parts built long before the sewer systems we have today. Cities that are more recent have separate sewer systems for waste water and storm water runoff. Since the storm water runoff is just rain it can immediately be dumped into the nearest body of water. This doesn’t work when you have one single sewer that has both storm water as well as waste water. Since this water is contaminated, it first has to be cleaned at a treatment plant. However, they do have limited capacity, so they often overflow and by that contaminate rivers like here. The solution Paris built a huge under the surface reservoir that takes in the mixed waste water during storms and acts as a buffer to prevent over whelming the treatment facilities. When the storm is over, the water can slowly be let out of the waste water reservoir and into the treatment plant without over whelming it. The problem is that this is most likely not the only contamination in the seine. Since it’s a moving body of water, upstream pollutant also have effects on the seine in France. This can be anything, from similar waste water situations in (smaller) cities to agricultural runoff that gets washed from the fields. It’s a complex topic and they spend lots of money to fix it. However, since it hasn’t fixed it till now, I also think it is unlikely that it will do so within the next few days

[@Sierra_love]

I think one of the olympians recorded that they got sick after swimming

[@subyouwont]

Two

[@jwright6059]

Many if not all got sick in some way

[@bedrockgemsonfire4127]

I can only imagine the ridiculous paperwork they'll try to make the athletes sign so they cant sue the Olympic committee when (not if, WHEN) they get incredibly sick after they swim in that disgusting river for their event. Every athlete has the right to expect they will be performing their events in a safe environment (I know there are accidents and weather and unforseen circumstances but the point is that organizers should not be KNOWINGLY endangering the athletes). How embarrassing for Paris. What a joke they're still even debating having people swim in the Seine

[@shadoxVincent]

Winners get gold, silver and bronze, rest gets poop.

[@sasi-justsilenca3531]

It's a sh*tty situation 💩

[@Bladarc]

You get poop, you get poop, everybody gets poop!!

[@adam95190]

40 minutes drive from Paris at 2 am. In the middle of the day it takes from 1h30 to 3 hours to drive there

[@jpr4747]

No, because they forbid usual citizens to ride on one of the loans : thus we have to endure traffic jam all day long, in order to let the iddle class ( CIO, police, politician and athlets) taking these privatized loans. ( Otherwise, you get a 135€ fine, they put cameras, cops are warning....).

[@Idk.lol7689]

Relatively short drive lmfao.

[@dutchik5107]

Obviously they go there super early.

[@randomnamd627]

Or yk, take the train for 20 minutes?

[@yaush_]

Take the metro dumbass. Or use a fucking moto. Cars aren’t the only mode of transport.

[@maddisonduvall8978]

It sad that Olympian’s are forced to swim there and don’t have choice. Forcing the worlds best athletes to either drop their events or risk their lives, health , and careers.

[@CRILLICD]

Can’t believe they actually had to swim in it ..

[@elllied_]

update the triathlon swimmers swam in the seine 👍

[@TommyGee.]

Update: it was delayed by 2 days, but triathlon did go ahead in the Seine

[@SaralisaL]

So sweet of Paris to give the swimmers hepatitis as a participation trophy ❤

[@tallyjaxval]

If you’re in Paris as an athlete right now: MAKE SURE you don’t sign anything that waives the danger away. If you do, you will NOT BE ABLE TO SUE THE CITY IF YOU DEVELOP HEALTH ISSUES FROM SWIMMING IN POOP WATER THAT THEY “GUARANTEED” WAS CLEAN

[@-.cookie.-]

I'm French and I am absolutely appalled that athletes were made to swim the the Seine. Absolutely disgusting 🤢

[@ayame4932]

Alors. Ce n'est pas la France qui veut ça. Pour préciser car visiblement tout ceux en dehors de la France pense cela : plus de la majorité des français ne comprennent pas, s'indignent et ne veulent pas que la Seine soit utilisée pour les JO, car oui elle est polluée et répugnante. La seule chose, je dis bien la seule et unique chose qui pourrait stopper définitivement cette idée plus que stupide, inconsciente et dangereuse serait que TOUT les sportifs de cette épreuve refuse d'y plonger. Mais ce n'est pas prêt d'arriver. Je ne saisis pas comment on peut mettre sa vie en danger, même pour une épreuve qu'on a attendu toute sa vie. À quel moment vous acceptez de vous baigner de un bouillon de culture pareil, microbes en tout genre, pollution en tout genre... Entre risque de tomber plus ou moins gravement malades, perte de membres voir même la vie selon ce qui est attrapé et comment le corps réagit. Le personnel s'occupant de cette épreuve est dangereux et inconscient, c'est déplorable, mais les athlètes se laissent visiblement faire ? C'est une honte de plus qui sera à tout jamais collé à l'image du pays.

[@CP-jk8nm]

Je me demande si, des années après cela, quelqu'un va intenter un procès s'il tombe malade ou si les athlètes ont dû signer une décharge de responsabilité pour avoir sauté dans la Seine. C'est tellement dégoûtant!

[@subyouwont]

🤍 foreigners know it’s not the people of France that represent the actions Olympics officials make

[@itslit1998]

Spending 1,5 billion just to have the river still be so dirty that you are not allowed to swin in it is such a Paris thing😂😂

[@lilaznkid4ever]

Rest in peace to the swimmers 🏊‍♂️ 🙏 😔

[@ArtemisRahl15]

Maybe they can use those floating wetlands things? Or add live freshwater oysters into the river to filter the water? Of course… it probably won’t make it in time for your events, but it might keep the Seine cleaner in the long run.

[@AmyB369]

That is disgusting to make anyone swim in unhealthy water

[@JayTacoDustyTowers]

It was in fact, not clean enough by the time of the olympics. And they still had to swim in it anyway

[@gmdesert3810]

for all the stranger put there even if it dosent rain the water is still poluted from the industry near paris and highter up the flow. its not a river you should drink water fromor swim into no mater how "clean" the governemznt are trying to make it look like

[@misterbnz8449]

@@gmdesert3810 attends le jour où tu découvrira que les parigos boivent l’eau de la Seine

[@kim98677]

Swimming in any river directly next to any capital city is basically begging to be exploding out if both ends for the next 2 days 😂

[@johnjaso6685]

Damn bro you know it’s bad when even in 1923 they knew enough about diseases to close the water

[@tallyjaxval]

For a billion and a half, they could have created a small route in the river and isolated it with a crapload of purifiers. Then Paris would have a swimmable branch forever. But no 😅

[@elllied_]

that’s kind of what they were doing actually

[@astralloser1177]

even london didn’t make olympic athletes swim in the Thames, wtf was Paris thinking??? 😭😭🤦‍♀️ sure, the E Coli is what we’re concerned about, but THE BODIES!? honestly, i feel bad for the competitors 😭

[@lovelydeath04]

Wait, WHAT?! They expect olympians to swim in contaminated water?!😵🤢 All of Paris needs to go to jail...

[@dr.blockcraft6633]

Why all Of Paris? 99% of Them have Absolutely no Say whatsoever In what Happens to The river, Or the Olympics.

[@JustalilJaded]

I heard at least 1 swimmer did get ecoli from swimming in it

[@Dr.DaddyDevious]

1.5 billion to make less poop get into the water? Or to make no poop get into the water? Cause like, if it's 1.5 and it's still getting poop in the water, I don't think they have finished building it yet.

[@colink2967]

Dude they want people to swim in centuries of sewage mixed together 😂

[@kathryncook7193]

If this was a problem they could fix. WHY DID THEY WAIT UNTIL NOW???

[@binubeaniebaby]

I really admire Paris for this attempt. I know it’s not popular but imagine if they succeed! What a triumph! We do all have the right to clean water, the problem is governments usually never invest in this kind of infrastructure. I hope they succeed.

[@TSwizzle13_4life]

Yea but they had 8 whole YEARS to prepare for the Olympics and they got reminded to clean the Seine only 6 months before the Olympics started when they promised 8 years back that it would be clean enough to swim by now

[@Ayeo998]

@@TSwizzle13_4life that is a problem yes, but people literally protesting clean water by shitting in it are next level stupid.

[@trishalennex4630]

@@Ayeo998I agree but Paris loves a good protest I guess

[@Darkest_Shadow]

I’m not French so my opinion doesn’t really matter, but even if it’s not what they promised by now, the fact that with enough time it will be better is pretty cool to me

[@Mielllo]

They've probably been planning on cleaning it all 8 years. Civilian type engineering always takes forever because..... No one wants their tax money to go to clean water and sewage disposal😅

[@blissykissy]

So you’re saying that they’re doing something to prevent it getting dirtier but they’re not doing anything to clean it? That sounds fucking disgusting and it’s disrespectful that they’re making people swim there.

[@FairLadySpiny]

People have been dumping sewage and other things into the seine for hundreds of years. I do not think it can ever be “clean”

[@Zach2Wheels]

Yeah... The rain.... 😂😂😂😂😂

[@noitsholly]

When I went to Paris, it was so smoky and bins on the streets overflowed. These bins lined the footpath, so you had to be careful walking otherwise your clothes will brush the garbage with weird stinky liquid running out of it. I find it funny that movies, songs, ppl romanticise Paris.

[@samuellee2682]

Only the French could protest a river getting cleaned

[@bunny2867]

I think it’s more the fact that they could swim anywhere but instead have chose to waste money on cleaning a river when that money could go to helping people

[@lizzardgamer7146]

I’m the person who’s going to state that it did in fact make swimmers in the river sick

[@StalfoHunter]

This aged like milk.

[@Sean11194]

These countries are insane so much money for Olympics to look amazing when their people are struggling.

[@TEO.187]

If only theyd actually used these back up plans

[@Ndzzle]

Tell me that the Olympics could not care less about the athletes without telling me they dont care about the athletes

[@CalamityJay-ez2mq]

It wasnt a big enough incentive to not make the locals live next to raw sewage but now that the carnival is in town you have to give it the landlord special

[@justanotherweirdo11]

Actually insane that they made them preform in that.

[@natalieisanerd]

So many olympians got E. Coli after being forced to swim in the Seine 🤢

[@meriemhaddad9674]

So nobody is gonna talk about the Algerian 💀bodies in it !

[@JZLtravels]

What is even more disgusting that the Seine is the amount of money they put into "cleaning" it 🤮

[@Flixs_Shots]

That’s crazy ur standing exactly where I was 2 weeks ago omg

[@quwyn6192]

online it says it’s not clear that’s how they got their illness 😭. how do three swimmers, that go into dirty ass water get sick then?????

[@saskewoo]

It's just baffling that they made athletes swim in there

[@plot4445]

why did they schedule a triathlon in a river that is historically full of poop? that’s like scheduling a professional drag race in a college town apartment parking lot on a friday night

[@Hadkek]

I thought she was going to poop in it to protest the olympics

[@jenndowell6446]

France has SO much water, so many alternatives! This was a very poor decision

[@elektra3741]

they should move the even somewhere cleaner no question. imo it’s disrespectful to the olympic athletes

[@jordyb57]

I’ve pooped everyday in the river after lunch for 4 months

[@anniehackett4910]

Honestly that is incredibly disrespectful to the athletes. They are the best in the world and France wants them to swim in shit water?????!? They should stand together and refuse.

[@elne5657]

The fact that it took the OL to get them to fix the problem is crazy.. It should just have been done years ago for the citizens 🙃

[@thecritic122]

And now they're in the hospital. Great 👍

[@Jason_Moore619]

They should use a pool, not a toilet

[@bradiedean7466]

Victor Hugo has entered the chat

[@lukrezialaval2406]

I would not even stick one toe in there, less alone swimm in it. I feel so bad for the olympic swimmers.

[@alexandraamaral6263]

I’m portuguese and our olympic team got sick after they swam in the seine 😭

[@jaykay3071]

Even if it’s not clean enough they’ll just claim it is and go on with the money making scheme

[@im_br0ke]

Wait a minute.... Paris has sewage dumping directly into their river, and they want USA to sign the Paris agreement? 😂😂😂 no.

[@leahbutton3972]

Should of got the pool guy in it’d be sorted in two hours

[@Tati_6]

Wow Paris should never hold the Olympics again so far only heard negative things about it

[@soundninja99]

Its insane that the best contingency they found for the triathlon was to turn it into a duathlon. Ioc: I'm sorry, but we wanted the swim to look cool. Why don't you guys do another sport?

[@Assuredtheory]

Update: No, no it was not clean by any means and a lot of the swimmers got sick. Paris should be ASHAMED of what they have done to the Olympics and not just because of this. By where they are staying woth no ac and cardboard beds. The food being awful and running out. PARIS I HOPE YOU NEVER GET TO HOST THE OLYMPICS AGAIN.

[@PoisonAsh]

Yeah um they still made them swim there.

[@amareemunir2567]

But the sharks😂

[@user39104]

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS

[@djones02]

They know where the Olympics are held a decade ahead of time. When did they start trying to clean the river?

[@zessonateacloud]

Yay, gold for the winner and several rounds of antibiotics for everyone else🤢

[@LauraGCB]

Why don’t they do what London did with the Thames?

[@suprisingmeatball]

Wait what did london do with the Thames? Its been dirty forever and not clean as far as I can remember. Maybe I missed something?

[@EvilGoatBoy]

Well, this didn’t age well at all. Swimmers in the event noted unspeakable things floating in the river next to them. This was disgusting to force athletes to experience. The entire Olympics is a giant human rights violation this year.

[@thelazygamer1370]

Only took literally the world watching and hearing for them to do something. It’s just depressing

[@therealgrimreaper68]

They could have built a new pool or river with that 1.5 billion euros

[@ellanaughton4297]

I’m still remembering under Paris from watching this 😭

[@FullMex]

I saw a movie about this....😂😂

[@theshamanite]

Ohhh, that's why Paris apparently smells like pee

[@alias9236]

"Less goes into the seine" 1.5bill and still having overflow is crazy

[@denrenvavanaardt6989]

Our generation wouldn't see that river clean, it's definitely not happening in such a short time

[@franklinclinton3211]

Bro why have the paris Olympics been so horrible? Is france really this incompetent of a country?

[@rayanchak2685]

Im french and i live 10 20 kilometer from paris and its still dirty af onece i fell and got sick just dont go in

[@Livetoeat171]

And while she's promising the river will be ready, up comes a gasoline-run boat, leaving pollution behind!

[@l.l.8022]

Whatever happens, good luck! Work hard 💪😊 Rootin’ for ya!

[@CDS.26]

I guess it kind of funny that the city with the climate agreement after it has a river you can’t safely swim in.

[@maxrain4204]

Insane. So much money and they still made them swim in the nasty water. Theres so many better, and cheaper options.

[@SammyJo717]

Ewe winning a gold is going to make them sick

[@Mattisttam]

Why did it take the olympics to clean the river lol

[@MaggieMayhem999]

Well two athletes got eccoli sooooo

[@Eternity971]

You forget the third option ! Still disgusting water and you still swim in it 😂😂😂

[@IMjustAGirlInTheWorld1983]

Its ignorant that sweage has access to water anyways

[@mattdean5431]

The seine has been dirty since BC became AD

[@OTH4]

Freddy’s worried about having storage linked to him, then gets a storage locker under the name of a TAVERN EMPLOYEE…like that hasn’t already backfired on the HOA once