Paris has just months before hosting the 2024 Olympic Games, where athletes are set to dive head first into the Seine River. The body of water runs through the heart of the French capital and is a hub for pollution and fecal bacteria, released directly from the city’s sewer system. So how do French politicians plan to cleanup the river before the summer Olympics?

WSJ went inside the project to understand if this $1.5 billion plan can really sanitize the Parisian waterway.

Chapters:
0:00 The Seine
0:29 The plan
2:38 Solutions and challenges

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