Italy Faces New Drought Alert as Venice Canals Run Dry Transcript

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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