{"id":129679,"date":"2024-04-16T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T06:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/sewage-pollution-could-jeopardise-olympic-swimming-events-in-the-river-seine-ngo-warns\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T06:10:50","slug":"sewage-pollution-could-jeopardise-olympic-swimming-events-in-the-river-seine-ngo-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/sewage-pollution-could-jeopardise-olympic-swimming-events-in-the-river-seine-ngo-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewage pollution could jeopardise Olympic swimming events in the River Seine, NGO warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129679\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nOnly one out of 14 water samples show the river to be safe for swimming, according to analysis by Surfrider Foundation. Fresh doubts have been cast on the possibility of Paris hosting Olympic swimming events in its polluted River Seine. Much excitement was generated by the announcement last year that the Seine will be open for public swimmers in 2025, after staging triathlon events this summer. But water sampling by the European arm of the Surfrider Foundation has revealed that bacteria &#8211; including \u201cpollution of faecal origin\u201d &#8211; remains dangerously high.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is therefore clear that the athletes who will be taking part in the Olympic and Paralympic events planned for the Seine will be swimming in polluted water and taking significant risks to their health,\u201d the nonprofit said in a statement last week.<\/p>\n<p>As romantic as it sounds, bathing in the Seine has been forbidden since 1923 due to danger from boat traffic and water pollution. Paris\u2019s iconic river is fouled by untreated wastewater. Treatment plants upstream of the river can dump wastewater when they are overwhelmed during periods of heavy rain. Surfrider Foundation also blames malfunctions in the sewage network, as well as barges and riverside dwellings that aren\u2019t connected to the wastewater networks. 1.9 million cubic metres of wastewater was discharged into the Seine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>How is the Seine being cleaned up? To tackle these issues, the City of Paris has embarked on a \u20ac1.4 billion cleanup project. It is building a 50,000 metre cubed rainwater storage basin upstream of the Austerlitz bridge. This underground reservoir &#8211; fed by a 700 metre long tunnel &#8211; is designed to hold water during storms, before releasing it back to the sewer system.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the city said that all boats needed to be connected to Paris\u2019s sewerage system, and has set about installing new connections in ports. But progress has been slow, and some boat owners say they have been unfairly targeted, compared to their land-dwelling neighbours. The municipality has also been working on fixing connections from Parisian homes to the sewer system, as some has been sending their waste straight to the Seine or its tributaries.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/04\/15\/sewage-pollution-could-jeopardise-olympic-swimming-events-in-the-river-seine-ngo-warns\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/04\/15\/sewage-pollution-could-jeopardise-olympic-swimming-events-in-the-river-seine-ngo-warns\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/sewage-pollution-could-jeopardise-olympic-swimming-events-in-the-river-seine-ngo-warns\/\">Sewage pollution could jeopardise Olympic swimming events in the River Seine, NGO warns<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[14180,4748,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-129679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-olympicsparis","tag-seine","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}