Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable
Briefly

"Around the world, as global heating causes summer temperatures to soar, people are flocking to urban waterways and reclaiming these once polluted, poisoned gutters as indispensable places to cool off and unwind."
"Might these dangerous arteries of cargo and sewage be reborn as the great free public spaces that they could be?"
"The televised spectacle of swimmers front-crawling their way through Paris, flanked by beaux-arts bridges, offered a glimpse of what all our urban waterways could look like."
Read at www.theguardian.com
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