In the face of an ongoing heat wave, Paris authorities are keeping five large parks open around the clock, Monday to Friday. 127 other smaller parks are already open full-time. The five parks added are Buttes-Chaumont, Martin-Luther-King, Mountsouris, Andre Citroen and Parc Monceau.
Parisians have been taking measures of their own, as well, including swimming in the Bassin de la Villette and the canals, where authorities warn the water doesn’t meet pollution standards, but some bathers shrugged it off; one told a reporter “This is not much more polluted than the sea.”
In addition to the parks open, legislation has been proposed that would create a right to leave work when temperatures rise above 35C (95F). The measure is to be debated in the Assembly next week.
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