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sbov | 6 years ago

Yeah, most of Venice's problems are due to pumping water from the aquifer under the city.

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Lucadg|6 years ago

not really, source please

safsafsa|6 years ago

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027277141...

It really doesn't need a source. If Venice takes too much water from an aquifer then subsidence is unavoidable. The city is sitting on top of a sponge, after all. This is true for any city that's not built on bedrock (which I believe includes half of Manhattan and Miami. NYC of course draws from the Hudson)

Anyway, as the paper states the subsidence exasperates rising sea levels.