PARIS : Mayor Anne Hidalgo is confident that her swimming in the River Seine in June will convince the Parisians that it is safe to bathe in the river."To the grumpy ones, I say: 'Yes, we are going to swim in the Seine.' We're going to do it, of course.
FILE PHOTO: Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo sits during an interview with Reuters at Paris' cityhall, France, March 13, 2024. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File PhotoPARIS : Mayor Anne Hidalgo is confident that her swimming in the River Seine in June will convince the Parisians that it is safe to bathe in the river.
Hidalgo said in January that she would swim in the Seine ahead of the Olympics. Last month, she told Reuters she was targetting June 23, when the whole city will celebrate the upcoming Olympics, as a likely date. On Thursday, the city will officially unveil a storage basin capable of holding 46,000 cubic metres of waste water to significantly reduce the risks of pollution of the Seine.
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