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SAVING VENICE November 23, 2005

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Venice (via BBC)

And the solution may be a saline one.

According to the BBC, engineers and geologists from the University of Padua have proposed a plan which would involve pumping sea water down into the sand sub soil of Venice, which if all went as intended would lift the city by 30cm in 10 years, which is as much as it has subsided over the past three hundred years.

Not everybody is convinced this plan can work, and one critic has described it as pure science fiction. Still the mayor is in favour, and this, and similar engineering projects, require political support before blueprints are realized.