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In Stockholm, you can swim in most of the city center - except where the large ship lanes are. Thousands of people out swimming on a hot summers day.
In Stockholm, you can swim in most of the city center - except where the large ship lanes are. Thousands of people out swimming on a hot summers day.
* Farmers having runaway water with lots of nutrition makes algae bloom * Hotter summer also lead to more algae * More unstable climate with flash rain makes sewage seep out into the fjord when the water handling stations can't handle the flow * Fishing boats are destroying the sea bed
If this isn't turned around, our nice fjord will soon be dead, and possibly not safe to use.
Perth, Western Australia is very swimmable, river through the heart, great beaches to one edge. Very occassionally sharks, although these aren't something locals much worry about: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-15/bull-shark-involved-i... Her death was the first fatal shark attack in the river in 100 years.
Locals mostly don't swim in the swan/canning estuary because it's full of jellyfish[1]. The water quality is fine but ... ewww. They're not particularly harmful ones but you don't want to get any part of them in your eye. I have heard, though can't substantiate, that the mass jellyfish population (and there really are swarms of them) is down to the ecosystem having been basically plundered to extinction, and jellies…
These days you'd have to ride the roof and deal with live over electric wires, etc and all the CCTV: https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/man-fa...
Fucking mad, but I love it. Of course, you need to work into the culture swimming as a foundational cultural thing. (Not so in the US!) I can see us getting there in some decades. It tracks with other aspirational goals which are in progress.
Why would you think swimming isn’t a cultural thing in the US? Municipal pools are everywhere across the US - and practically a staple for southwest residences. The US produces some of the world’s greatest swimmers. It’s a part of school curriculum and while we don’t really have swimmable canal cities (like most of North America) there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy swimming.
In Michigan there are a lot of places in a downtown area that would be so cool in Michigan and it could double as an ice rink in the winter.
It would also be terrific to have a river pool or two integrated with Detroit's famed river walk but sadly Detroit's water just isn't quite there yet. Lots cleaner than in the sixties and seventies but cleanup efforts stalled a while back when the state stopped funding efforts and lost the federal matching funds.
In Stockholm, you can swim in most of the city center - except where the large ship lanes are. Thousands of people out swimming on a hot summers day.
We can also swim in Oslo, but it's threatened: * Farmers having runaway water with lots of nutrition makes algae bloom * Hotter summer also lead to more algae * More unstable climate with flash rain makes sewage seep out into the fjord when the water handling stations can't handle the flow * Fishing boats are destroying the sea bed If this isn't turned around, our nice fjord will soon be dead, and possibly not safe t…
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I guess they mean safe water as in water you will not get ill from swimming in whereas I think parent is talking about safety as in safe from drowning
Why do you guess that? The sentence includes both "safe" and "healthy"; the latter is redundant on your guess about the former. This is basic reading comprehension really.
Really? Do you need to attack the parent and make them seem dumb?
American living in Copenhagen here. We check all of these boxes. The entire channel that runs through town is swimmable thanks to decades of work cleaning it up. On a warm summer day, you could expect maybe 1000+ swimmers in the water in the city centre across all the locations. We also do Vinterbadere (Winter Bathing) throughout the year. The only time you can't swim is after a day or two of sustained rain and there…
Can anyone tell me which city has the swimming pool right on the river that's on the home page? In Michigan there are a lot of places in a downtown area that would be so cool in Michigan and it could double as an ice rink in the winter. It would also be terrific to have a river pool or two integrated with Detroit's famed river walk but sadly Detroit's water just isn't quite there yet. Lots cleaner than in the sixties…
It was a temporary installation in Brussels: BADEAU. https://www.pooliscool.org/news/2016/9/22/badeau-the-first-p...
