Venice and its New Seawall

Here's the link, outside of the paywall:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/world/europe/venice-mose-flooding.html?unlocked_article_code=i6kDTPRYt0IZF59GzfAXGMqzIMcfXLqnRNKbIoS8kKX4TpPGAry2eercoHIbKv_rfpPoVyory-02zEWRcgQON1x8sltgtQP0tVhY0k0cj_FelAd2_etqdchIY4yWOWiuq8FPUUsWQct9oSrwh5xRn2xZbpssCBIqfx4uvrf2EMedY6BuhJyfaAwl_CC_f4zlowbJShtvmO8xNehUfjmBZJrmLdyCUF-q-vXVYx9xYV3TMOZlZszOAxqNIKnX5-SgmVPuNVXCQcl6CikAksnYxLReGjJr005C22ZMSeoUkJDKvoxR-yEwH7tD4pPtfv1c6xNoG5BsMysPWHehqyIuyP29&smid=url-share

Thanks , Scudder , I kept getting a rejection here ( This site )

Thank you

To be quite honest, Italy can't "afford" to lose Venice. Not because of any cultural or historical significance, but because of tourist dollars. They will continue to do what they can to keep it online, even as its population dwindles. Eventually it will turn into the theme park it's always threatened to become.

I thought the story was unintentionally funny, the way the project almost died because of graft and then the times where everyone's hand was hovering over the "up" button but no one could give the command.