塞纳河水质差？巴黎市长“跳河”回应质疑

当地时间7月17日，巴黎市长安妮·伊达尔等人，在距离巴黎圣母院不远的塞纳河段游泳。她希望用下河游泳的方式来表明塞纳河水质已经得到了改善。

在即将到来的巴黎奥运会上，塞纳河也将成为舞台。不仅奥运会的开幕式将在塞纳河上进行，这条河也将成为铁人三项游泳比赛和马拉松游泳项目的赛场。

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip Wednesday in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to show that the long-polluted waterway was clean enough to host swimming competitions during the 2024 Olympics as well as part of the opening ceremony, now only nine days away.

下河前的巴黎市长安妮·伊达尔（中）

然而，塞纳河的水质依然是人们关注和担忧的对象。

7月11日，2024年巴黎奥运会即将开幕，塞纳河岸边安装临时看台。

为了举办奥运会的比赛，法国政府投入了巨额的资金来改善塞纳河的水质。据悉，迄今已经有多达14亿欧元的资金被投入到了和塞纳河相关的设施建设当中，包括在巴黎东南部修建的一座大型蓄水池，这些蓄水设施可以在雨水增加时存储部分雨水，以免脏水随雨水一起流入塞纳河。

To clean up the river, Paris invested 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in building infrastructure to catch more stormwater when it rains — the same water that contains bacteria-laden wastewater that enters the river during periods of heavy rain and makes it unsafe to swim in.

7月15日，法国巴黎市政工作人员对塞纳河水质进行抽样测试。

和世界上许多历史悠久的城市一样，在巴黎的下水道系统中，城市的废水和雨水会流经同一条管道，这意味着如果雨水过大或持续时间过长，管道的容量就会达到极限，部分未经处理的废水就会随雨水流入河流，而不是进入处理厂。

Paris, like many old cities around the world, has a combined sewer system, which means that the city’s wastewater and stormwater flow through the same pipes. With heavy or prolonged periods of rain, the pipes’ capacity is reached, which means raw wastewater flows into the river instead of a treatment plant.

而在今年，巴黎的雨水相当丰沛。据统计，从1950年至今，2024年巴黎的降雨天数仅次于2016年，并且今年巴黎仅在6月初经历了一次为期一周的无雨期，但从1950年到2020年期间，巴黎一般到6月底都会有至少三次达到一周的无雨期。

Paris only experienced one weeklong dry spell this year — in early June, whereas between 1950 and 2020, it was typical for the city to have at least three such periods by the end of June, according to the analysis.

研究雨水管理的土木与环境工程教授梅廷·杜兰在接受采访时表示，想要治理好塞纳河的水质，“这确实是一个复杂且代价高昂的问题。”

“The Seine is not a special case,” said Metin Duran, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Villanova University who has researched stormwater management. “It really is a complicated and very costly problem.”

据巴黎奥运会组织者的说法，如果塞纳河在奥运会期间遭遇到了暴雨影响，铁人三项比赛的游泳部分可能会被取消，而马拉松游泳项目的比赛则将被转移到马恩河畔韦尔水上运动体育场进行。

Paris Olympic organizers have said that if heavy rain affects the Seine’s flow during the Games, the triathlon would no longer feature the swimming portion — and the marathon swimming competition would be relocated to the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in the greater Paris region.

不过当下，组织者对于奥运会期间的天气情况和塞纳河相关基础设施升级的效果仍然感到乐观。

But organizers remain optimistic that drier, sunnier weather than what the French capital experienced in June will allow the events to go as planned — buffeted by the infrastructure upgrades. The sun’s ultraviolet rays kill bacteria like E. coli in water.

5月1日，巴黎近郊圣丹尼地区，一群游泳者在塞纳河中游泳。

曾在东京奥运会获得铁人三项赛事铜牌的法国运动员蕾奥妮·佩利乌特也表示，塞纳河的水质不需要担心，“人们总会担心我在塞纳河游泳，但是我已经在这条河里游了好几年了。”

“Every time I meet someone, they worry that I’m going to swim in the Seine, but I’ve been swimming in this river for several years now. In youth competitions, we swam regularly in the Seine and never had problems,”Léonie Périault, a French triathlete who won a bronze medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics said.

“青少年比赛时我们就常在塞纳河里游泳，从来没有什么问题。以埃菲尔铁塔为背景的比赛环境非常棒，水的状况也不比其他任何地方差。”

Last year, Périault took part in a test event in the Seine.

“The setting was incredible with the Eiffel Tower as a backdrop and the water conditions were not worse than anywhere else in the world,” she said.

7月13日，法国体育部长阿梅莉·乌代亚-卡斯泰拉在塞纳河流经巴黎的河段游泳，希望能化解外界对塞纳河水质能否达标的担忧。

On Saturday, the French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra took a plunge to demonstrate that the famed river is clean enough.

法国体育部长阿梅莉·乌代亚-卡斯泰拉（中）游完塞纳河后接受媒体采访

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