Venice Is Drowning: Engineering Expert Explains How To Save It | WSJ Pro Perfected

Venice, Italy, is sinking. The city spent about $6 billion on MOSE - a mobile floodgate system that rises to separate the Venetian lagoon from the Adriatic Sea, blocking high tides from inundating the city. But that might not 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 asked an expert to explain potential engineering solutions to protect the “floating city” from being overrun by water.
Chapters:
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
#Venice #Italy #WSJ

[@badarakonate]

Giovanni’s ability to explain a such serious problem so calmly is actually more fascinating than the problem itself 👏🏾👏🏾

[@itaipee]

Very informative video. Nicely edited. I liked the balance between narrator and expert

[@averagestudent1158]

Comparing the base of a city to a souffle gave me chills. Engineering is awesome but we're playing with the ultimate boss.

[@thatguywhois]

his little smirks when explaining the souffle 🤌😚

[@Plinktitioner]

Well done video and editing. One of the best videos in a while

[@denismourenas4876]

Very interesting methode ! I'm glad to see Venice's future to be brighter hopefully!

[@awellculturedmanofanime1246]

venice is such an iconic and gorgeous city full of heritage

[@mrbaywatch21]

Venice must be saved! ❤

[@RoberttSmithh]

Nah its gonna be the next atlantis

[@mrbaywatch21]

@@RoberttSmithh at least it will be Italian Atlantis 🦑🪼🐠🌊🍝🍕🇮🇹

[@avocado1700]

Cannot stop nature. They will be underwater very soon..

[@JoeyIndolos]

@@mrbaywatch21I like your emoticons. Seafood pizza for the win! Extra anchovies please 😀

[@studuerson2548]

Why,exactly?

[@CHMichael]

3:25 just look at that rooftop park

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

Venice is more magical than Disney, please save it!!!

[@pauloricardoemboabadossant5958]

Save Venice, please. One the most magical, surreal places I have been to.

[@herzogsbuick]

any resources on the "super levee" idea? i've done a bit of googling, but everything seems to be about MOSE, i haven't been able to find a real proposal or discussion of the super levee

[@oswaldogarcia7327]

Always great to see the Real Heroes of society provide their professional expertise.

[@joeyaldente8858]

The real heroes make hard decisions, like knowing when to say enough is enough. They literally flush their sewage into the ocean so it's kind of ironic that it floods back at them.

[@dshamiljathaddaus1287]

Very heroic of him to waste $6bn on a solution which is going to be obsolete in a decade due to the very same phenomenon for which his “engineering solution” was commissioned in the first place… he should be prosecuted honestly..

[@metallsimon]

Can you include Metric Numbers? Like at 1:35, there is a Human for reference, but measured in feet. At 3:26 Meters is used and then back to inches

[@lezhu6856]

My name is Giovanni Cecconi, but everybody calls me Giorgio

[@AdamBechtol]

:p

[@Alex_Plante]

Venice has been sinking for a 1000 years. Traditionally, people would abandon the ground floor of their buildings, raise the roads (or turn them into canals) and add a new floor on top.

[@mikenjuki]

Saw this after watching Lift on Netflix. What a coincidence.

[@PeterFerguson9]

I want this man to narrate every video. All of them.

[@JK.3]

Makes Atlantis seem a lot more plausible

[@ReddoFreddo]

Yes, Atlantis is a real city that actually existed and it's super cool and it makes me wonder if all mysteries of the world can be explained by Atlantis having something to do with it.

[@auro1986]

how? get more sand and debris to block water and lift city

[@akshaygm6449]

GGs Venice

[@9razzler9]

and how long has this realization been around? and still nothing is done?

[@HenryBloggit]

“Thus solving the problem once and for all.” “But-“ “ONCE AND FOR ALL!!”

[@dwrecktheanimal]

There is literally no hope for the city as ice caps continue to melt. Rebuild uphill.

[@x13xmonkey]

Let it go!

[@Waltaere]

WSJ 😃

[@DonLee1980]

50 years from now, they'd either have to completely change the city to make it survive, or they'd have to completely abandon it. Neither is ideal, but that's what it is.

[@Jedanaste]

hey guys there is a genius here! let's all listen to him, come on

[@a-damgrubeer8527]

Dumping sewage in the sea seems a bigger problem..

[@chengyiq3066]

The world have to come together, in an effort to slow down climate change! Venice is a clear example of what could happen to cities if the average temperature gets warmer!

[@leemccabemccabe5627]

2024 🙏

[@comchadelalora]

Mamma mia. La pasta, la pasta !

[@Anonymous_self]

It is nature's call. No engineering can withstand the wrath of nature. Abandonment of the city before it forces you to abandon is the right choice left in your hand.

[@Themasteric2000]

please indicate both metric and non metric units. It is really hard to follow the video if you are used to metric units.

[@jamshedfbc]

Save Venice 😢😢😢

[@TitoMikiii]

1204.

[@duran9664]

❓ I thought Venice should be flooded all the time🤷‍♀️

[@JESUS-fi9oe]

First let’s forbid those massive cruises to come in

[@rodneypantony3551]

When a civilization is built upon ports, and those ports are submerged or high and dry, that ends the civilization because the supply chain disruption is so severe. WHAT'S THE ROLE OF FOUNDATION MODELS? Well, you can input all marine archeology and archeology from ports and sea shores such as Troy, Byblos, Shore Forts Roman Britain, Isle Thanet Roman Britain, Chapter 18, Book of Revelation, Egypt, Pompei, Carthage, Caesaria , Israel, and so on PLUS multi modal such as measurements from Rome's port. Then search popular climate change literature from past few decades. Next: AI can search for maritime architectural and civil engineering solutions. Apparently, prior to Rome's hydrophilic cement, ports were designed for sea level fluctuations with hydraulic solutions, much like Canada's St Lawrence Seaway. Troy for example. This is just one way AI can save civilization. You could form a GAN to see what the solution is: Lithium vehicles versus civil engineering.

[@YoutubeVagabond]

Venice wait for me to tour your place.

[@ya_hya]

the animation confuses me LOL, are they gonna raise the whole city 12 feet??

[@arazr.khojasteh5032]

How city get lifted 13 ft? Can’t understand min 5:30. What do you mean by creating a lake? Means st Mark completely underwater? Animation misleading. Houses shown on the super levee supposed to be the new construction?

[@erikperik1671]

Am I the only one who thinks this super-levee is a bad idea? Just build permanent barriers directly at the banks of the city! Seal off all water-facing ground-floor's facades and errect permanent Stone walls up to 2 Meters from the water's surface. Oh and while you are at it: Reduce the number of tourists. My suggestions: get rid of that car bridge that connects the city to the mainland and make it illegal to drive a boat through the city that isn't registered in the city.

[@stickynorth]

Cough, Cough, Atlantopa!

[@phrous]

Who needs super man when we have engineers to save us. I can never regret choosing engineering

[@AnweshAdhikari]

❤

[@SolaceEasy]

I had the chance to visit Venice in 1982. I skipped it. It was too busy then.

[@anonymous87654]

Lost cause. Can't stop the glaciers melting. Too little too late.

[@OpLapDancePikachu69]

this is a bandaid fix. the issue is global warming…

[@newjones1754]

How about we stop building there?

[@Semper_Iratus]

Drain the swamp.

[@monkeyguy80]

Any upgrades or blockages, It’s only the short term solution! End of the day, we can’t beat the FORCE of Mother Nature ya! 🌊

[@joeson7700]

Where are thou the DOGE's brilliant ancestral descendant SOLUTION to constant FLOODING ?.

[@johnmurray6690]

Sounds like Venice is done ..

[@MatthewNGolding]

The same will happen in Alaska in the future and trillions of dollars in infrastructure will go to waste, since they literally built on the edge of water.

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

Just abandon it. They can make submarine rides for tourists later.

[@vwkever74]

Just call the Dutch!

[@dMi_mi]

Well actually You are absolutely right, they are experts at this. 👀🤭

[@reginafefifofina]

3:05 sounds like Venice needs to get their 💩 together and spend some money not polluting the ocean. 🌊

[@ALDM404]

People need to stop using fkn feet and inches when talking about any meaningful measurements. I bet they made the engineer use inches too, just because it's an american platform. We all know that an engineer would never use the moronic imperial system.

[@yvan1401]

I can't believe an Italian engineer is using inches... I'm baffled. An insult to the engineering world.

[@michelemartini2011]

?

[@AdamBechtol]

Eh, I've been, but I'd abandon it. Give submarine tours as someone else said in the comments. I'm glad I'm not an Italian citizen being as to fork over money. We already got problems here in the U.S.A of people wanting to subsidize flood insurance for people who live in the cost. That's just the cost of living on the coast. If you don't like it move. If no one buys your house cause it's half underwater, shoulda thought of that before you bought it. This is going to continue to be an issue all over as much of human civilization is on the coast, for good reason. But consequences are a fact of life.

[@stevenkidd6761]

Glad this is another countries $$$ NOLA needs to suck it up and move away... 😢

[@withoutpassid]

Humm, can I trust Italian engineers 🤔?

[@cle_roknn3742]

At some point we need to come to a realization: it’s too late. Sea level rise is inevitable, the climate is changing and there is no longer a chance for change. New Orleans, Miami, Venice, most Pacific atolls, they are not going to be habitable much longer. Better to face that reality now than continuing to pump money and effort into a lost cause….

[@g00rb4u]

The migration problems of today will be completely overshadowed by the climate refugees of tomorrow.

[@asdf8948]

Just let it sink. It's basically just a tourist trap.

[@TurdBoi-tf5lf]

Cope

[@asegoful]

Exercise in futility if global warming is not addressed. The sea level will continue to rise.

[@antonykuo3809]

Solution is move somewhere else. Stop trying to live in a place nature doesn't want you to live in.

[@ketaminefetishist]

China seems to have success building islands. I'm not saying it'd be stable and wouldn't just sink into the ocean faster, but hey.

[@polygonalfortress]

speaking of the sinking part...

[@nosferatus777]

we are talking about a city that is 1600 years old, it is already a success in itself!

[@sethaost4212]

I love how the news doesn’t cover this stuff just KZbin government puts the real thing on here

[@HKim0072]

DUDE! DUDE! THIS IS LITERALLY A NEWSPAPER. IT'S THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. What is wrong with people?

[@RegulareoldNorseBoy]

He's right. WSJ is different than mainstream media@@HKim0072

[@markknoop6283]

It's very simpel don't let the cruiseschip in. The system works perfectly just as the corruption. And stop complaining.

[@Alesxandros]

Fake news...mose saved venice 15 times in 2023 and tjday is operational too😂

[@rwolfe180]

He helps design a $6 billion solution that didn't work, and now wants a redo...

[@verrico7536]

No engineering solution is permanent, especially with rapidly changing climate. But I doubt you have any higher education that would've helped you learn that

[@riyuzu2674]

if he (the engineer) had carte blanche it wouldve worked, unfortunatly: politics, and italian politics are some of the worst in that regard.

[@DC-ux1dt]

Stop wasting money on something that cannot be saved. Let it go and relocate.

[@abrahamjaimehernande]

Ha, ha, measurements in feet! How is this still a thing? C'mon, you can (and should) do better than that, WSJ.

[@LaughingblueSu]

And drump does not believe in global warming 😂😂😂 vote blue