There’s too much E. coli in the Seine for athletes to swim in it
There’s too much E. coli in the Seine for athletes to swim in it
Water tests showed risky levels of E. coli.
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E. coli levels should stay at or below 900 colony-forming units per 100 milliliters for “sufficient” water quality, according to World Triathlon. Only 1 of 4 test sites along the Seine showed levels below that limit, AP reports.
Training events had already been postponed with elevated bacteria levels following the downpour over the opening ceremony. Heavy rain can overwhelm sewage and wastewater systems, allowing untreated water to reach the river.
There’s more rain in the forecast for Paris tonight. But for now, both the women’s and the men’s triathlon events are scheduled for Wednesday at 8AM and 10:45AM local time, respectively. There’s also a backup date of August 2nd.
Seems to be pretty shitty odds of this happening on Wednesday
Even if they did clear it up by then I wouldn't want to swim in it. That's like swimming in the toilet right after you flushed it. There is still probably residue or something. Gross lol
It’s a river though, it’s never going to be all that clean. Yea they should wait till it follows to regulation required levels but expecting it to be anything near clean is unreasonable
Unreasonable if not done in time. Paris still has century old sewage pipes running to the river. That could have been solved but it needs years.
Meanwhile in Portugal after investments in water treatment plants all along the Tagus you are starting to see dolphins show up on the river near Lisbon.
Need years? I'm pretty sure Paris had almost 10 years to figure it out. The Olympics don't just pop up a year or 2 out.
In 1988 already Jacques Chirac promised that in a few years everyone will be able to swim in the Seine.
It did not happened but it shows that there is already decades of work and investments to clean the river and it shows, the Seine is much cleaner today than few decades ago.
It's still not perfect but it's getting there slowly and the Olympics gave a boost to it.
Yep. There have been billions invested
All I can think of is #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin. Still impressed someone created a site to coordinate all of it arriving together.