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    The problems that can occur during the Venice flood barriers is that the
    rising sea levels which can lead the city to be prone to flooding and
    with climate change it can make the situation worse for the people in
    Venice and they would have to evacuate or leave the city if flooding
    occurs often, another problem is that the water causes damages to the
    ancient buildings and canals of Venice which disrupts the people and
    their businesses and also the tourism which Venice thrives on gets
    affected, for the problems to be solved is that there is a project that
    can help Venice reduce the flooding called MOSE project which has
    mobile barriers that are installed at the inlets of the venetian lagoon
    which these barriers are used to rise when high tides happen which
    prevents flooding in the city.
    2. How these problems arise is that Venice is built on a shallow lagoon
    which has 118 small islands connected by the canals and the city is on
    sea level making it very vulnerable to flooding and the geography does
    not help because the wind patterns which are called the sirocco winds
    from the south push the water from the Adriatic sea into the lagoon
    that causes the floods and it can cause storms which are more
    common in the fall or winter.
    3. When they were building the flood barriers which covered about
    millions of cubic squares and were dug up near Venice’s water intel’s
    and they also built artificial islands which changed the flow of the
    water in the lagoon because of this it disrupted the natural balance of
    the lagoon which it needs regular water and sand to move naturally,
    since the MOSE is now working it sometimes stops the water from
    entering the lagoon during the high tides by preventing the floods it
    stops the process of depositing sediment on the salt marshes which
    are very important for wildlife and this is a concern because it can lead
    to algae and poor water quality.
    4. The consequences for these types of projects is that it damages the
    salt marshes in Venice and in general it can damage the biodiversity in
    the lagoon and it can harm the animals living in the lagoon. i think it is
    better for humans to adjust instead of changing things in nature that
    can permanently change the biodiversity or the natural course of
    nature and couldn’t they just have built Venice outside the lagoon and
    not on the lagoon.

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