Grace Rawnsley, the PLA's director of sustainability, stated: "When we get headlines like 'swimmable Thames', people think that it's safe to swim in, which is a concern."
Sir Sadiq Khan's spokeswoman mentioned, "the tidal part of the Thames would never be safe to swim in, but the mayor is committed to cleaning up areas where swimming would be safe."
Rawnsley emphasized, "We've worked really hard over the last 15 years to reduce the number of deaths that we get in the Thames... in 2023, there were 31 deaths in the tidal Thames."
She added, "It's about knowledge, doing it in a safe way, and certainly in the tidal Thames we would always be discouraging that [swimming]."
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