The river got a "B" in the Potomac Conservancy's new report. Things aren't getting worse, but improvements have stalled.

A bid for official bathing water status has been submitted at a city park. For Love Of Water (FLOW) CIC, Extinction Rebellion Salisbury and the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust are among the groups that have ...

Bathing in the Seine has been banned since 1923, with promises to restore water quality going back to 1990, when then-Paris mayor Jacques Chirac — later French president — vowed to make the river safe ...

The River Avon runs through Bristol, England, where there's a dedicated community of open water swimmers who swim in the river. Some do it all year long, even though sewer overflow runs into the river ...