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Out of curiosity, does this imply there is some permanent solution implemented here that will benefit the river after the Olympics as well? I can imagine that
by stingraycharles 3y ago
Out of curiosity, does this imply there is some permanent solution implemented here that will benefit the river after the Olympics as well?
I can imagine that having a clean river is good for many things, and they will keep using this facility?
- notatoad 3y agoI don’t know what paris is doing here, but I doubt it. It’s fairly standard practice for triathlons to dump a whole bunch of bleach into a lake or river to make it safe to swim in for a couple of days, but without continual treatment it quickly goes back to normal.
- seszett 3y ago> It’s fairly standard practice for triathlons to dump a whole bunch of bleach into a lake or river to make it safe to swim I'm not sure where this might be standard practice, but this would be very illegal in most of Europe. So that's not what is going to be done (as explained in the article).
- LeanderK 3y agodefinitely illegal in Europe, never heard of it. Wouldn't that massively hurt the environment???
- Timshel 3y agoYes the goal is that three spots will become permanent in 2025.
- probably_wrong 3y agoYes, they built some major infrastructure to deal with the run-off problem. Here's an article with more details: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66238618 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66238618