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After decades of bureaucratic delays, corruption and opposition from environmental groups, sea walls designed to protect Venice from ‘acqua alta’, or high water, went up on Saturday, testing their ability to combat the city’s increasingly threatening floods. Officials said that by 10 am, all 78 floodgates securing three inlets to the Venetian lagoon had beenContinue reading “Floodgates In Venice Work In First Major Test”