To ensure the river was Olympic-ready, Paris invested $1.5 billion into the cleanup effort, known as the “Swimming Plan.” As a result, more than 20,000 homes that were previously dumping wastewater ...

Parisians have legally swum in the Seine River for the first time in more than 100 years. On Saturday morning, designated ...

Explore the Seine River, the lifeblood of Paris, in this visual tour along its most iconic bridges and surrounding monuments.

Horrible water quality made it illegal to swim in the Seine for more than a century, but the Olympics pushed forward to hold ...