<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/910414/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Swiss architect Renata von Tscharner has devoted over two decades to improving the public spaces along the Charles River in Massachusetts. She even hopes to get people swimming in Boston's so-called "dirty water" on a regular basis. We met her at the Rhine River in her native Basel.<a href='https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/'>SWI swissinfo.ch</a> is a public service media company based in Bern, Switzerland.

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Meet the Swiss woman bringing open water swimming to Boston

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