If you’re one of those people who wants to jump in every puddle of water to swim, is 2024 going to be the hit for you!
Photo: Gray Line
Paris’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, hopes to change the murky and toxic river into a suitable place where one desires nothing else than to don a bathing suit and jump in!
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Taking Hidalgo’s sustainable and promotional mentality, we can expect big changes from other European cities, who owe their rivers a proper clean up.
Maybe it could be…
Thames, London
Photo: Baker Street Wikia
One glimpse is more than enough to distinguish the brown color of the water. This is obviously not a river you would take a dip in… and if you do your homework you’ll find that thousands of people lost their lives in the river becasue of cholera outbreaks.
The canals, Amsterdam
Photo: Wikipedia
It might look beautiful and pretty, given as well that this city is the first one to be completely bike-ridden. But, believe it or not, the canals are not very clean.
Ranging from TVs to abandoned boats, waste is usually found under the surface.
Tiber, Rome
Photo: All Free Photos
One of the largest rivers in Italy will definitely come up in this list. It would be great to swim across this ancient city trying to recreate how was life in those times. But, please, don’t do it! At least not yet. This river has been polluted since the Roman Empire!
That’s one of the reasons the aqueduct construction started – frequent diseases caused by polluted water.
We just hope that Hidalgo´s initiative goes well in the future, and can bring the best for our rivers… because in the end we are all brothers living in a big house called Earth.
Keep rolling till you find something you love…
