To be fair, it's my understanding that the Venice system is being held up by political squabbling in the Italian national government, and who knows when it'll actually be built. Wikipedia's entry about the MOSE Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSE_Project) links to an article about the issue.
Political squabbling in Italy? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
At least the Italians have grand plans. Meanwhile, some Americans are still talking about the rebuilding of New Orleans not being worth it. Do we have any grand plans for NO's new levee system?
Supposedly the governor of Louisiana and 40 underlings of hers are in the Netherlands looking at their levees. (Except none of the underlings are engineers. So apparently the decisive factor in deciding what technique to use is how cool it looks to the layperson. Hey, that fits well with this web page, too.)
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Date: 2006-01-20 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-20 12:45 am (UTC)At least the Italians have grand plans. Meanwhile, some Americans are still talking about the rebuilding of New Orleans not being worth it. Do we have any grand plans for NO's new levee system?
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Date: 2006-01-20 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-20 01:53 am (UTC)