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‘We can’t wait’: Venice already seeking floods plan B five years after barriers’ launch

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‘We can’t wait’: Venice already seeking floods plan B five years after barriers’ launch
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Rising sea levels and ecological damage caused by heavy use of flood defence system force city authorities to consider next moveThe Arsenale, the colossal shipyard that was the engine of the Venetian Republic’s domination for seven centuries, remains the nucleus of the city’s control over the water. Its northern section is made up of cavernous brick warehouses called capannoni, which in the 16th century could produce a warship a day through a rigorously ordered assembly line.Now, one of them hou

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