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Italy Faces New Drought Alert as Venice Canals Run Dry Transcript

Italy Faces New Drought Alert as Venice Canals Run Dry Transcript

Some of Venice’s smaller canals have practically dried up due to a prolonged spell of low tides, frustrating boat crews, and bewildering tourists. Read the transcript here.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):

Right. Some bad news for people vacationing in Venice, Italy. The city’s famous canals are experiencing record low levels over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:08):

Oh, how mad would you be?

Speaker 1 (00:09):

Right? Super mad. And the water reached about two feet below average.

Speaker 2 (00:13):

Oh.

Speaker 1 (00:13):

This is a new record. Look at that.

Speaker 2 (00:15):

Whoa.

Speaker 1 (00:15):

Many canals are completely dry.

Speaker 2 (00:17):

Wow.

Speaker 1 (00:18):

Forcing gondola to change the routes to avoid shallow water. The low water levels are being blamed mainly on dry weather and tidal changes. I can’t speak to anything about the patterns over there, but it certainly, certainly is unusual because I feel like that with rising sea levels, you should see the opposite. So I don’t know what’s happening.

Speaker 3 (00:36):

Right, that’s what I heard about. The primary worry is that it’s going to be underwater.

Speaker 1 (00:40):

Right.

Speaker 3 (00:40):

So see it while you can.

Speaker 1 (00:42):

Yeah, so what a bizarre know situation. Maybe they had one of those king tides and then it sucked the water out of there, or something like that.

Speaker 4 (00:49):

And the mud is not nearly as romantic.

Speaker 3 (00:51):

No.

Speaker 1 (00:54):

No, it’s not. [inaudible 00:00:55].

Speaker 2 (00:55):

At that point, do you just laugh?

Speaker 3 (00:55):

[Inaudible 00:00:56].

Speaker 2 (00:56):

Are you just like…

Speaker 3 (00:57):

Yeah, probably.

Speaker 2 (00:58):

“We saved all our lives for this?”

Speaker 3 (00:59):

Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:00):

Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00):

I hope you’re not wearing nice shoes.

Speaker 2 (01:02):

Right. Okay, it’s still Venice.

Speaker 3 (01:04):

Yes, a hundred percent, fabul-

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