Venice, Italy, spent about $6 billion on MOSE – a mobile floodgate system that can block high tides from inundating the city. But these storm surge gates won’t be enough. Fifty years ago, the lowest point in Venice, St. Mark’s Square, only flooded forty times a year. Now, it floods 250 times a year.
From pumping water into the city to super levees, WSJ explores potential solutions to protect the “floating city” from being overrun by water.
0:00 Venice flooding
0:43 MOSE barriers
3:01 Pumping salt water into aquifers
4:57 Super levee
7:07 Venice’s adaptations to rising tides
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