Is the Thames safe to swim in? London mayor Sadiq Khan vows to make it so by 2034
London’s mayor has vowed to make the notoriously polluted River Thames swimmable within a decade. It’s welcome news for Londoners looking enviously across the Channel to Paris - where authorities are racing to get the Seine clean enough for Olympic swimming events this summer. Sadiq Khan announced his “moonshot plan” to clear up the “national embarrassment” to The Sunday Times newspaper. “We won’t do this overnight,” he said. “It will take us a few years to do - but the great thing is there’s an appetite from Londoners and campaigners.” Here’s how London could reverse the fortunes of its belov...