alt Hacker NewsOne of the benefits of EU regulations is that they have brought some order to the dumping of raw sewage into rivers and seas. But there is still a lot of work to do.
Local authorities from lots of EU regions generally avoid measuring water quality after rainy days because raw sewage is still often dumped under those conditions.
Even in Basel, where the Rheine is really clean, authorities sometimes advise not to swim.
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Are there other options when it rains? I imagine they're not dumping sewage into rivers for fun.
Pfft, raw sewage? Amateur hour.
Back in my day we'd have river fires that burned 50' high and burn bridges.
The source of the Seine is in Burgundy. Not a European, so wondering what the relationship between the Seine and EU regulations is.
The uk escaped this madness, here a entrepeneur can still take a free market bath as god intended. https://www.sewagemap.co.uk/