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Italians trying to keep Venice above water
Source: Copyright 2010, Deutsche Presse Agentur
Date: January 4, 2010
Byline: Peter Mayer
Original URL: Status ONLINE
The scene in Venice in November was one that for many is becoming all too familiar: residents waddling in their gumboots on raised wooden walkways to cope with the "acqua alta," or high water.
The Italian lagoon city's famed St. Mark's Square is now flooded more than 100 times a year, compared to around seven times a year a century ago. That makes the walkways placed along some of the city's submerged alleys and squares more than necessary.
Some predict that the city could disappear altogether over the next century as ice from the poles melts and ocean and sea levels rise.
"Venice has been experiencing the effects of climate change long before other cities in the world," Elena Zombardi of the Consorzio Venezia Nuova -- the consortium appointed by the Italian state for safeguarding the city -- told the German Press Agency dpa.
Since the early 1900s the city has sunk by 23 centimeters, in part due to subsidence -- the natural ...
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