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

• Lucadg 7y ago
  not really, source please
  • safsafsa 7y ago
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272771413004629 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.
    • jcranmer 7y ago
      NYC's primary water supply comes from the Catskills, not from local aquifers or local riverine supplies (the Hudson River is too salty around Manhattan to draw from).
    • gattilorenz 7y ago
      > It really doesn't need a source. If the claim is that it is the main problem, I think it does need a source, and by reading the abstract it doesn't seem like yours is one.