As civil engineers try to find solutions to the crisis in New Orleans, my husband brought up the idea to turn New Orleans into Venice.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venice/solutions.html
Thus, I went online and found this while Googling for a good Venice website without a cheesy mini-file opening upon entry.
Venice, the city of water, is also facing issues with the rising sea level and its sinking community. Engineers there are trying to find ways to keep rising waters at bay, if only to keep their quaint, water town from becoming a completely submerged Atlantis.
I do like the idea of making the lower levels of New Orleans into a community of stilted and tall foundation building and allowing the waters to be the streets. I think it is sometimes better to let Mother Nature win and take over, and just work around it. I do feel that there will still be a need for some levies around the city, but there also needs to be some cooperation with nature and civilization. The natural wetlands need to be restored and preserved just as they used to pour tons of taxpayer money for the man-made levies. And large populations just can't live in a wetland.
We need to be more creative in getting the majority of the New Orleans population to live on higher ground. You got any ideas?
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