>>12792344This is a bait post but whatever.
The acquifer has been tapped from the 50s during the rapid industrial growth that all of Italy experienced, but the practice has been banned in the 70s, and yes the city sank because of that, and yes the city is still sinking due to subsidence. One of the proposals to patch things up is to pump water in the acquifer around the city in key locations over the period of a dozen years or so to raise it, but as far as I know it's still just one among many proposals and would be a palliative anyway. This doesn't change that sea level has been increasing steadily, plus acqua alta has been happening at alarmingly increasing rates with record breaking levels each time to the point they predict MOSE to become obsolete far quicker than predicted (not that the shitshow that is MOSE would last that long anyway), and all this can be tied to climate change. There are multiple measurements spanning more than a century on sea levels and through some analysis and more recent GPS measurements it has been possible to separate subsidence from eustatism, and guess what? The sea level IS rising. If you think that's it's just all a lobby sham and everyone's lying you should either go back to /pol/ or take your meds.
Source:
http://www.venezia.isprambiente.it/ispra/index.php?action=download&upload_id=173866t. Venezianon
