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A team of experts has arrived in Venice to save it from increasing situationscircumstancesoccasionsincidences of flooding. A controversial plan to construct a barrier with 79 gates, each weighing 300 tonnes, has been given permission to  beproceedgoadvance  ahead. Once constructed, this will be  erectedraisedliftedinstalled  whenever a high tide  threatensendangersrisksjeopardizes  to cover the city. Everyone has known for centuries that Venice is  decayingsinkingcollapsingfalling  further into the mud, but floods are becoming a regular nuisance. Rising sea levels have gradually  erodedworncorruptedbroken  the salt marshes and mud-banks that  facedoccurredfeaturedstood between the city and the Adriatic. Winter storms cause high waves, which are  offendingcrashingassaultingopposing  the walls of the old palaces. But there are fears about how the  buildingtheoryintentionresult of such a barrier might affect the Venice lagoon, particularly the possibility that it could further  delaydirectrestrictimpose  the flushing of the city’s waterways by the tide, making the famous foul-smelling canals even more  motionlessstationaryinactivestagnant . To avoid making a bad situation even worse, the experts have been  asked overbrought incalled uptaken on  to analyse tidal flows, marine plants and sediment deposits, and then suggest ways to prevent the city becoming the first high-profile  victimtargetsufferersubject of global warming and rising sea levels. But with global warming  believedimaginedexpectedsupposed  to add at least another half meter to the sea level this century, the situation is bound to  destabilizedeflatedetractdeteriorate . A spokesman for the team said, ‘We cannot hope to stop Venice submerging eventually, but we can slow the whole  damageprocesswaterevent  down and so enjoy the city for a while longer.’

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