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After wildfires in California and Colorado cities, levels of harmful metals in the water jumped. Nature sent up a red flag.
Connecting the rich, and often unknown, histories of open swimming in urban waterways to the growing swimmable cities movement could help to shape the futures of urban swimming.
The Seine will be used for Olympic events in 2024 and remain open for public swimming, ending a century-long ban. It’s part of a global movement to make city rivers healthy and swimmable again.
Urban rivers and creeks have bounced back from early colonial use as convenient waste dumps. But the restoration work isn’t done yet, as Melbourne’s Darebin Creek shows.
In cities across Europe, 62% of the population doesn’t have access to the amount of nature the World Health Organisation recommends.
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Professor of Chemistry, RMIT University
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