{"id":867,"date":"2009-05-10T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2014-09-17T16:17:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T14:17:45","slug":"venice-high-water-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/it\/venice-high-water-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice: linking high water and tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0A Poem:<\/div>\n

The city of Venice is slowly sinking; ground floors of buildings become useless.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ocean waters are rising one annual inch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flooding is frequent, daily in winter.
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Sidewalks float away.
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The mayor says: “buy tall rain boots”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MOSE high water project progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The population of the historic center of venice is 60,000 souls, one third of what it was only 50 years ago.
\nThere are fewer schools, doctors, real stores; more luxury hotels and vendors of carnival masks.
\nOn any given day 100,000 tourists come in and out of the city. 15 million tourists per year.
\nGigantic cruise ships shimmy up to Saint Mark’s square. They displace water.
\nWater in canals polluted by sewage and motor boat traffic.
\nGarbage is collected in hand carts; efforts exacerbated by tourists’ consumption of packaged products;
\nConsumption, of the city itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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