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#72 - An Olympic Challenge: Cleaning Up The River Seine

Author
CCW - The Consumer Council For Water
Published
Thu 04 Jul 2024
Episode Link
https://ccwpodcasts.podbean.com/e/72-an-olympic-challenge-cleaning-up-the-river-seine/

Dan Angelescu, CEO of Fluidion, joins Mike and Karen to discuss how the water-intelligence company is monitoring river pollution in the Seine to ensure it’s safe for swimming at the Paris Olympics and beyond.

 


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Timestamps


 


0:00 - Introductions and hellos 

1:26 - The weird and wacky things found in sewers

3:42- Dan Angelescu joins the show and discusses the work of Fluidion

5:53 - Measuring water quality from a human point of view. 

6:54 - Swimming being banned in the Seine for 100 years

8:54 - The history of Fluidion's monitoring of the Seine 

12:02 - The application of Fluidion's systems worldwide 

13:47 - Fluidion's ALERT system and how it works 

16:52 - Paris' attempted solutions so far

22:21 - Is there a possibility of the Seine not being used for the Olympics?

26:12 -  The global problems of water pollution

28:13 - Monitoring water pollution in the UK

32:20 - Dan's personal water use

34:56 - Final thoughts and farewell 


 


Show notes


Severn Trent reveals the Top Ten weird and wacky things that have been incorrectly put into the sewers 


Fluidion


Dan Angelescu *03 Is Making the Seine Swimmable for the Paris Olympics | Princeton Alumni Weekly

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