This Saturday, swimmers will plunge into the not-so-dirty water of the Charles River for the eighth City Splash event. What's happening: From noon to 4pm at the Esplanade, Bostonians who have signed ...

A century after the city of Berlin banned swimming in the Spree River because it was so polluted it could make people sick, there's a push by swimmers to get back into the water. Around 200 people ...

For the first time in nearly a century, the Chicago River hosted an organized open swim. The race on Sunday drew 263 swimmers and celebrated the river’s environmental turnaround. Memories of the river ...

It’s one of the longest rivers in the United States, and it's full of fish. Discover what is lurking in the Arkansas River.

Hundreds of people went against a nearly century-long tide to swim in the Chicago River on Sept. 22. The event, which was put on for ALS research, marked the first open water swim in the river in 98 ...

For the first time in nearly a century, swimmers took to the open water of the Chicago River on Sunday. Participants in the Chicago River Swim made their way along a one- or two-mile route downtown.

For the first time in over a century, Parisians and tourists will be able to take a refreshing dip in the River Seine.

Early Sunday morning, spectators jostled for a glimpse of the Chicago River to witness something that hadn’t happened there in nearly a century. People were swimming in it. In the heart of the Loop ...