Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said Thursday that a project is being launched to get pollution levels down low enough to make it possible to swim in the River Tiber in the Italian capital in five years' time.
    "We have already set up a working group that will soon be inter-institutional," Gualtieri said at the Italy Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka on the sidelines of event entitled 'The Eternal City Welcomes the Future.

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    "I have spoken personally with (Environment) Minister (Gilberto) Pichetto Fratin and (Lazio) President (Francesco) Rocca, so that, together with the government and the region, we will work for the necessary investments.
    "We are pleased to have already noted that it is absolutely a feasible goal: within five years we will be able to bathe the Tiber." Gualtieri said it should cost less than it cost Paris to clean up the Seine because the French capital "was starting from a much higher level of pollution."
   

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