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Venice’s famous canals have dried up


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They say its cause of drought but Venice is in the middle of a lagoon that's directly connected to the sea. idgi, but congrats on not sinking anyway.

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It’s not true according to the comments on the post 

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Mariana trench is not safe.

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2 hours ago, BrokenMachine said:

The city is facing sinking and now is facing a drought, oh well :gaycat6:

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1 hour ago, Zaram said:

@OreGuy let's meet in venice ASAP before it's too late :chick3:

I always wanted to go there one day.

hun im scared idk how to swim the moment it sinks when we get there :jonny5:

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35 minutes ago, bijonse said:

It’s not true according to the comments on the post 

its being reports by loads of news outlets

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Our species is so ******* dumb

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Not the city sinking and thirsty at the same time :redface:

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6 hours ago, masterbaiter said:

Has this happened before and if yes, when? Or is this a record-breaking event?

It's come close before. 

 

These canals that are dried up are not the main canals, these are all secondary canals. The main, wider canals are still as we know and love them.

 

The reason they've dried up is due to low tides and poor management of the canals themselves on the part of the local government. Italy is in a dry spell, and it's been long known that this was possible as a result of a drought and they've come close before. The canals can and will eventually be refilled either via irrigation/redirecting some of the flow of the main canals or when rainfaill finally returns to the region.

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48 minutes ago, flower moon said:

its being reports by loads of news outlets

It is but their headlines are deceptive. As noted above, these are shallow, thin, secondary canals. Not all of the canals in Venice are dried up and this has just as much to do with poor management of the canals as it does with the impending drought. That's not to say that climate change is causing the drought because it is and this wouldn't have happened without that, but this isn't the sign of apocalypse that the media's running with it as and it can and will be corrected soon. 

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8 minutes ago, Mr. Mendes said:

It is but their headlines are deceptive. As noted above, these are shallow, thin, secondary canals. Not all of the canals in Venice are dried up and this has just as much to do with poor management of the canals as it does with the impending drought. That's not to say that climate change is causing the drought because it is and this wouldn't have happened without that, but this isn't the sign of apocalypse that the media's running with it as and it can and will be corrected soon. 

im sure most watching the videos/looking at the pictures realise its not the main canals lol but yea the media is being clickbaity and comment sections are filled with idiot conspiracy theorists.

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2 minutes ago, flower moon said:

im sure most watching the videos/looking at the pictures realise its not the main canals lol 

I love the optimism but alas I can't make myself think that highly of the general public anymore :toofunny2:

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I read that this is the yearly draining of canals combined with lower tides than usual. 

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I'd be mad if I was on vacation there and all the canals were dried up

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Oh good, I remember seeing before that it was flooded and would soon be under water completely.

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Didn’t people say it was smelly and dirty anyways

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They’re a smelly sewage system now anyway. Imagine having to cope with that smell and annoying tourists filming TikToks year round. No ma’am. 

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