Can Paris fix its poop problem before the Olympics?
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- Paris’s bold Olympic promise to clean the River Seine.
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A key promise in Paris’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics was that its famous river, the Seine, would be cleaned up in time to host open water swimming events: the triathlon, para triathlon, and marathon swimming. But swimming has been banned in the Seine for a century because the Paris sewer system is designed to dump wastewater into the river during heavy rain, when the sewers get overwhelmed by stormwater.
When that happens, levels of E. coli, a bacteria associated with fecal matter, spike in the river, making it too contaminated to swim in. In order to make good on its promise to clean the river, Paris officials took on a $1.5 billion USD infrastructure project that includes a massive underground tank and tunnel system meant to hold excess sewage during heavy rain and prevent further contamination of the Seine.
Water quality testing will be done daily ahead of the Olympic games this summer, and Paris officials are hopeful their ambitious plan to host swimming in the famously polluted river will succeed.
Follow the daily water quality tests of the Seine from the City of Paris here:
www.paris.fr/pages/meteo-de-l...
Check out some of the data used in this video, along with additional water quality tests, from Fluidion:
fluidion.com/open-data-initia...
Are Olympians Going to Swim in Poop Water? - The Cut
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Will the Seine be ready for Olympic swimming? Paris officials 'confident.' - Washington Post
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Paris looking at Plan B if River Seine remains unfit for Olympic swimming - Global News
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Agree, I get so annoyed every time I see it sponsoring videos.
@@DioneN Just use browser extensions
They don’t pay their therapists good from what I’m hearing
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@@Ziggyvu What about bus drivers, do they get paid good?
i love how all the comments are just about betterhelp lol
So THIS is what Cancel Culture is all about. Ok, I see now. 🤔
It's scary to see a spam campaign happening in real-time. Why don't these people have jobs?
I dont
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you guys literally wrote an article about BetterHelp's numerous controversies 😭
vox is a sham
Vox is the real sewerage problem...
Just shows how the video department doesn’t communicate with the video department
Money is money
they've become the very thing they wish to destroy
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@@VygoLive Why aren't you guys bot spamming other channels? Jolly just uploaded a Texas grocery store video with a Better Help sponsorship in the middle and none of these bots are spamming their comments.
why?
@@gladitsnotme The only bot here is you , as evidenced by your rampant shilling in reply to every comment critical of BH.
The video : Eeew, poop in the Seine
The comments : Eeew, betterhelp in a Vox video
Eww poop in a betterhelp Vox video
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Sacre bleu! Betterhelp is through!
BetterHelp is UA-cam's poop problem
Vox should do this investigation video too! Sponsored by big Pharma.
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lol 😂
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Vox should make YTP videos.
Comments are
0.01% Poop
99.99% BetterHelp
So... 100% poop ;)
@@DS-jb9rt Don't you insult my guy 💩 like that.
Poop > Betterhelp
What's the difference
betterhelp is poop
=>100% poop
I’m still yet to find a comment that isn’t about better help but my search continues
everyone so vocal about the Betterhelp sponsor but aren't vocal about the sponsors of news channels, big pharmaceutical companies, politicians, scientific studies, universities etc. 🤣🤣 make it make sense
I found one! Took awhile, though
"BetterHelp shares your data" i mean, lets be honest, who doesnt
keep looking
bots trying to hide things about india and immigrants
clicked off as soon as i saw you doing a better help sponsorship.. no integrity.
Doing the same. If I see it I don't watch. Hopefully that will send a message.
Why's that?
14 mins and someone did a sponsorblock entry for it already
As everyone should. Unacceptable at this point
Can somebody explain why betterhelp is bad ? I always thought it was a great alternative for people who can’t get appointements where they live
Ah, BetterHelp as sponsor. If you value your privacy don't give them your data, they'll sell it.
Unsubscribing due to BetterHelp.
Google does just as much if not more so it’s good to use ad blockers and trackers to keep your information safe online!
Companies like Betterhelp and Established Titles convinced me to get Sponsorblock. I didn't have that big of an issue with Sponsorships before then but promoting literal scams is unacceptable. If UA-camrs won't hold these companies accountable then they shouldn't complain about not making any money. The same happened with Banner and Video ads before. People didn't have a problem with them until they become overly bothersome.
So you tell them your deepest secrets and they'll sell it to the Chinese?
Also not great therapists in my experience
They should have fixed this poop problem a long time ago. It shouldn't take the Olympics coming to town to fix infrastructure
first non better help comment i see
Finally, a non better help comment
@@awesome8326 lets make it about better help
please edit your comment and add something about betterhelp
@@SebaBuenoHaceMusiquitaJijiji nah I'm good
i think it's pretty cool that regular people will be able to swim in the river after 100 years.
wait i mean BOOO BETTERHELP
"Better help" scams customers and shares the data to other 3rd parties without consent.
Literally every website does this?
@@Sneaker3719better help is a therapy service website though
@@Sneaker3719 are you comparing website cookies to your therapist selling your deepest secrets to advertisers?
There is a good chance that they are in a deal where BetterHelp gets an ad in a certain amount of videos, because this has been going in for a while now even with comments on every video like this.
@@highonkola6142 do you intent that BH have collected some sensitive data on Vox so used them for free?
i love how nobody actually cares about the video because of a sponsor
like the people saying “clicking off”? like they need money to run this, despite it being a bad company i would rather vox stay afloat. but that’s just me i guess 🤷♀️
As we should
@@mrpw1402 it isnt video ruining, calm tf down
@JadeTheRock they have the choice to select different sponsors. I don't have an issue with Sponsorships as long as they aren't scams.
The views are all UA-cam cares about, so this spam campaign is going to have the opposite effect. Better help videos are getting MORE VIEWS because of these astroturfers.
"Let them eat poop."
- Marie Antoinette, 2024
As soon as I saw the sponsorship I thought "I bet the top 5 comments are all complaining about betterhelp"... little did I know it was every single comment 😂
Nah, at least two are about something else.
Are they THAT bad? Like seriously?
For real, x'D
Betterhelp is helping themselves to bankruptcy with that sponsorship. x'D
@@disgruntledwookie369 Why aren't these people bot spamming other channels? Jolly just uploaded a Texas grocery store video with a Better Help sponsorship in the middle and none of these bots are spamming their comments.
Betterhelp? There are better sponsor. Even no sponsor is better than those sharks with no moral integrity
Hey, sharks never intentionally prey on humans, they’re important to the ecosystem and are also generally excellent. Leave sharks alone.
I guess money CAN buy anything
could someone please briefly explain what better help is and what the backstory is about them? i only saw a few ads but dont know why its not a good system
@@nax1807 As with most things a few people had a bad experience with a bad therapist, and now people want to tear down the whole system. Better help does a lot of good and has a lot of happy customers.
@@Banter07Predator unintentiobally attack something vulnerable? Yeah right.
A shark will attack anything it deems vulnerable, including a human. Never make the mistake of thinking otherwise. That applies both literally and figuratively.
Jesus Christ, get better sponsors Vox. Do you know how harmful "better help" is?
How harmful is it?
Very.@@cactaceous
surprised that a scammer is sponsored by scammers?
Do you know how harmful Vox is?
Vox belong to Muslims
Laughed that Vox was doing a sponsored video and laughed even harder when I scrolled down and saw all the comments roasting the sponsor
Better Help: The official sponsor of poop™.
I hate BetterHelp, it leaks ur info, stop sponsoring BetterHelp
Promoting, not sponsoring. Betterhelp is doing the sponsoring Vox is doing the promoting
You got it backwards
@@thatoneguy2136 Do you really expect them to know basic words?
@AshraNashal52 No.
@user-dx7of4qt1b You have to agree to that. Nice try making it sound illegal. They wouldn't be in business. Come on dude, -use- -common- -sense- . Nevermind this is youtube.
all companies do this
stop working with betterhelp, Vox!
everyone so vocal about the Betterhelp sponsor but aren't vocal about the sponsors of news channels, big pharmaceutical companies, politicians, scientific studies, universities etc. 🤣🤣 make it make sense
Exactly right, can't believe he did this
The 2024 Netflix Movie "Under Paris" is comically similar to this entire scenario. The swimming leg of a triathlon is held in the same river full of giant sharks. There's even a stubborn Mayor of Paris who insists the race should go ahead amid warnings to cancel it.
Maybe this is not famous outside France, but, in 1995, Chirac promised he would swimm in the seine before 2002. 22y later the river is still not safe ...
Our politicians just always lie.
Isn't there an App created to tell people where to poop so that the Seine is full of poop when politicians swim? And I'm not talking about BetterHelp.
@@MartinMenge yes it does
Oh my god..... a comment that does not mention better help. 😂😂😂😂
@@cometstar4050 i am french, never heard about it 🤣
@@cometstar4050 maybe read mine again, for meaning lol
Therapy is great but BetterHelp has shown on multiple occasions to be the opposite of that. I know Vox needs money but pick a better sponsor, you have the viewer base to support choice.
Do they need money though? Seems like the parent company Comcast Penske Media Corporation is doing quite well. I know Vox is presenting itself as a small independent journalistic operation that barely stays afloat, but is that true? I don't know the answer but I am suspicious though. regardless they shouldnt take sponsors that do morally dubious stuff, at least i know that for sure.
@@py2178 wait, Comcast owns Vox?
Ugh
@@OgdenM One of these days comcast is probably going to buy disney. Comcast owns practically everything.
You guys should try to cancel a commercial contract based on "people on the internet don't like your brand anymore", that should go well in court...
@@MegaLokopo no... BlackRock owns everything. 😛
3:07 SAY NO TO BETTERHELP SPONSORSHIPS
Swimming in the river for Olympic events be like swimmimg in the Hudson river in N.Y city
How old is this video that it talks about May 15 of 2024 in the future tense? also... better help? really? get good, vox
The video is not an old release, but the script was in preparation for a while.
Do you not understand how time works? Just because something is in the relatively near future still means it's in the future, and English has no near future tense.
@@I_Love_Learningyou think may is in the future?
I'm guessing if the president / mayor take the dip they're going to shower immediately afterwards, keep their heads above water, and get tested a few days after haha. I don't understand why they wouldn't just have outdoor swimming events somewhere else in France with cleaner water.
Only comment about poop so far
yup, no way they get it clean in time. Olympics are starting soon and they still have a poop problem
I‘ve been scrolling through comments for a long time, but this was the first comment related to the video.
@@parkingcase1447 Politicians are turds.
Betterhelp
They fail to mention that people are purposefully dumping poop in the Seine as a protest.
What are they protesting?
@@jakemaxwell3810betterhelp is scam
the one comment not about the sponsor
@@jakemaxwell3810ur mom
@@jakemaxwell3810 Over the amount spent to clean it up for the Olympics (AUD$2.2 billion).
Betterhelp is the real problem not the poop in the Seine
The quantity of comments is a good fuel for the poop algorithm.
So surreal to see essentially every top comment talking about BetterHelp.
Jesus Christ not betterhelp, anything but betterhelp
Established Titles: now it’s my time to shine
@@cdvideodump At least Established titles was a scam, better help did nothing wrong.
@@MegaLokopo wdym
@@antcat8400 wdym
@@MegaLokopo Found the contrarian troll
Betterhelp? Really?
They should hold the Olympics in the same city where everything already works instead of spending astronomical amounts of money to create temporary fixes and build new stadiums. They might be held in Greece in autumn to avoid the heat.
That won't stop the poop protest 🤣
i'm disappointed that you're still being sponsored by betterhelp
What’s wrong with betterhelp? I’m kind of out of the loop with this whole thing.
everyone so vocal about the Betterhelp sponsor but aren't vocal about the sponsors of news channels, big pharmaceutical companies, politicians, scientific studies, universities etc. 🤣🤣 make it make sense
@@rafayekhan9340 they've been sharing people's mental health information that is filled out on the intake survey with third parties like fb and ig, which is a huge HIPPA violation, and they've been misrepresenting their privacy policy. they've been doing this since like, 2014 or something
@@rafayekhan9340 Betterhelp is like a online-therapy
But they are scammers and they sell your data like personal level data and are also do not provide good therapy
@@pinefilms3141 found the betterhelp employee
Don't take sponsorships from BetterHelp
They really tried to do damage control by saying "BetterHelp has no say in our editorial decisions" in the description
**hears better help**
**sighs**
**opens comments**
For the people? No.
For the Olympics? Yes.
Very True
Betterhelp?
No hate on better help?
@@yargan493 =¡===(boom)---> > > > betterhelp
Comments for the video? No.
Comments for the sponsor? Yes.
not the betterhelp sponsorship
Better Help is a disgrace to the profession!!!! I would literally never use this service-it is not real therapy.
"Giant 13 million gallon capacity"? Thirteen million gallons is literally a drop in the bucket. Paris is 105 square kilometers. A quarter inch of rain over 10 square miles equates to 43 million gallons.
I think betterhelp is polluting the water rather than poop.
you can test that by looking for the be. tter-helpi bacteria
polluting the mind.
Clicked for the thumbnail, left for the sponsorship
I honestly expected this video to start with a dramatic "this is poop." in a true Vox fashion
As a french person i'm pretty sad you did not mention the plan of some people to poop directly in the river few days before the Olympics to make Macron and Hidlago regret spending billions on that event... Love the french creativity when it comes to protest
France is like that friend who lets their place get filthy when it's just them and then 20 minutes before guests arrive tries to clean real quick.
Then insists that their guests wash their hands in the toilet
Don't forget history said they are not the most clean. Older infrastructure is harder to fix, they will need to gut it. So yes it's not cheap or a priority.
Calling Paris, France, is quite funny for you to say. As a south of France residents, I will never be exposed to such issues in my home town nor will be the 99.9% of cities outside Paris.
@@patatr4943 so your contention is that Paris is not France? It's not France that is hosting the Olympics? Just Paris?
@coachmcguirk6297 there is a saying in French "Paris ce n'est pas la France" (Paris isn't France). And as a matter of fact those are Paris Olympics not France Olympics... (yes Im French).
BETTERHELP???
Paris will never solve its poop problem in time, because I am currently eating Taco Bell all day and pooping directly into the river.
If you had better help with your bowels, things might be a little different.
LOOOOOL
@@JPabloRL Bruh, I can't. 🤣
This was such an epic rebuttal towards the lack of sponsor-bashing.
Surely, there must be pools where athletes can swim. There might not be pools that can accommodate a thousand spectators, but organized sports are televised anyway. It's my understanding that the 2020 Olympics didn't have in-person spectators either.
why would you even choose that sponsor, stop
Because they are poop. And better help is the official sponsor of poop.
BETTER NOT GET HELP
ty for the support!
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PLSSSS
Why? I have thought of using betterhelp many times and I have not been dissapointed.
Im dYING
As a wise man once said: "France is no longer France"
i hate how all the comments are just about betterhelp. this is such a nice video
2:43 also I cant believe that in 4 of the 5 tests, the number exceeded 2000 AND 3000 IN ONE TEST.
I do hope that the seine is swimmable
Good luck to anyone who will be dyin.. swimming in it
Congratulations! Your comment is the only one that is not about BetterHelp! 🏆🎊
behold the first non betterhelp comment!!
You will swim in Betterhelp?
Damit ..first coment I see that is not hateing in better help...way to go men xD you are a 🪡 on this sea of coments
there's probably mutant shark in it lol
3:43 click to skip better help
thanks!
Thanks pal.
nope. would rather watch something else. everytime I see a betterhelp-sppnsored video I close it immediately.
probably best to just stop watching from @3:43. It sends a stronger message than just your average ad skip
10-15 times a year sewage is dumped in the Seine is nothing compared to the UK where most sewer overflows discharge well over 50 times and there are numerous examples of them discharging over 150 times a year.
Which UK cities use combined effluent and stormwater systems?
@@av_oid The question is more which do not. A few new developments segregate waste from rainwater, but most areas have combined sewer systems. Discharges also frequently happen at sewage works when the 'storm tanks' which are supposed to store excess water overflow into rivers.
I wonder how much BetterHelp pays to sponsor a youtuber. And why do these youtubers keep accepting it despite the controversy surrounding BetterHelp?
Can Vox fix its Sponsor problem before they lose all credibility?
Can Vox fix its BetterHelp problem before the Olympics?
Came for the video, stayed for the comments 😂😂😂
I selected the thumbnail and then clicked on the sponsorship.
Not the betterhelp jumpscare
i came to the comments to comment about betterhelp but everyone has done it already
The Paris sewer system is fascinating and people should go to the sewer museum if they are ever in Paris
I was in Paris last year and it was really interesting to step on the grates and see how deep the sewers are
I am sure other places are deep as well but you can’t visibly see how deep they are from the street view where I am from
Welcome to the Poolympics .... oh and get rid of the Betterhellp sponsor . I mean seriously bro ......
She finally swam in it!
Imagine if they spent all that money on some new apartment buildings?
Betterhelp is bad, m'kay?
m'kay principal mackey
Shut up m'kay?
How about its shark problem?
I’m furious I’ll never get my time back from that movie. My friend begged me to watch it with them.
@@Drew791 bro it was so good Wdym 😭😭😭🤣🤣
@@dog360 I suppose I lack the refined taste required for such a film lol
He is on betterhelp
Did y'all not bother to research BetterHelp before accepting sponsorship?
Municipalities can implement various methods to collect rainwater and repurpose sewer systems for biofuel production. The technology exists to effectively manage rainwater collection and repurpose waste from sewer systems to produce biofuels, contributing to sustainable urban development and energy production.
yep but in older City it cost a lot and they are slow to convert.
Finally, a comment that isn’t about BetterHelp
@@larryalvares1369 exactly 😂😂
@@larryalvares1369 sigh 😂
Do not speak on topic! Cancel s
betterscam! 😡😡
Thumb down for better help
Wow
The better help sponsorship part of the video is removed.
Can they? Yes. Will they? Not in a million years.
vox please drop the betterhelp sponsorship :(
All comments are about BetterHelp xD. I was also really confused that Vox had sponsors, let alone BetterHelp...
They were just about to speak on this until BetterHelp disrupted it all... Now they don't speak of anything in topic anymore, and all they want was everyone who were involved or sponsored with BetterHelp to disassociate themselves from it.
I like how even gambling as a sponsor would've been better received
they should build a bunch of these in Paris at least 15 to 20 years ago since they knew the issue the heavy rain back up the sewer what causes it to run off into the river
What about the sharks? Will they fix that as well? 🙊
I don't know if I would be comfortable swimming in this river until I knew that no sewage was being drained into it at all and it had been thoroughly cleaned.
Did they actually say whether it was treated or untreated sewage? I don't think they specified if it was raw sewage or not.
The most astonishing thing is that they knew for 8 years that they will be hosting the Olympics in 2024. And yet they still failed to take any measures to actually improve the quality of the water in Seine.
Better help make the company owners rich, and therapists poor.
betterhelp again? is vox blind or something?
No they're just right-wingers. Remember their anti-union crusade against their own staff?
@@BuildinWings didn't know but not surprised. very ironic considering the content they make
@@vem9583 It's Vought.
I'm guessing they either have a contract or prepared videos in advance so they can't cut the sponsor yet.
I wouldn't be shocked to see if one of the other areas of VOX haven't done a video on BH not being the greatest company for your information of your your mental health. 🤣
Houston .. we have poop problem 😅
Yeah, such a poopy sponsor; smh
So there is a solution and it is fairly straightforward but we need the Olympic Games to justify stopping waste from being dumped into rivers?
*I am telling you, they can't contain the shark!*
aight people there's no way they don't know about better help, they just don't care
Wait, if they could hold the Olympics in 1900 despite their sewers dumping into the river, why can't they do the same thing now?
less water test and probably less people living in the area (though that might have been offset by lower (non existent ?) sewage treatment)
Probably because there were fewer toxic chemicals being dumped into the waters in 1900 and there were like a quarter of the people living in the Greater Paris area compared to today.
It shouldn't be too big of a problem if most people already don't give many s**ts about the Olympics to start with.
“Under Paris” 😂😂
Careful for the sharks lol
I was just in Paris last week. Let's just say, the Seine didn't look like something I would swim in. But I guess I am spoiled, living in Zurich with a river so clean, you can see far to the ground and there are several public baths along the river Limmat.
Better help ad? The company that takes your money and your data to sell? Nah I'm good.
dont sponsor better help
they wont help you
Im actually glad everybody is talking about the sponsorship instead of the video, im so sick of people having goldfish memory online. Any company can do anything when people dont care more than 3 business days, an absolute nightmare.
Why are all the betterhelp comments on this channel only? Yes Theory has betterhelp as a sponsor but no one saying anything over there. Why?
STOP ACCEPTING BETTERHELP SPONSORSHIPS PLEASE FOREVER AND ALL ETERNITY