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Re:Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years by Lucadg on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:08PM (#21527318)
not really, source please
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Re:Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years by safsafsa on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:08PM (#21528116)
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.

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Re:Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years by jcranmer on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:36PM (#21529868)
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).
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Re:Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years by gattilorenz on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:10PM (#21530799)
> 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.

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