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by sbov 2414 days ago
Yeah, most of Venice's problems are due to pumping water from the aquifer under the city.
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Lucadg 2414 days ago
not really, source please
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safsafsa 2414 days 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.

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jcranmer 2414 days 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).
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gattilorenz 2414 days 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.

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