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Project Name: Venice Tide Barrier Project (The Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico project)
Location: Italy
Project Start Date: 2001
Expected Finish Date:
Expected Cost: 2.6 Billion USD
Description:

The project designed to protect Venice from flooding and erosion involves using a string of 79 inflatable gates to stem the flow of water through Venice's three inlets into its lagoon.
Links:

New Scientist: Inflatable Dam to Protect Venice Is Approved

Venice Water Authority: Project news

Venice Water Authority: Homepage

PBS: Sinking City of Venice

The International Centre Cities on Water

Architecture Week: Saving Venice

UNESCO: Venice: duels over troubled waters

BBC: Italy rejects Venetian barrier scheme

BBC: Venice flood barriers shelved

BBC: Venice flood barriers rejected

BBC: Venice behind barriers

BBC: Venice overwhelmed by floods

BBC:Venice lagoon reveals grim secrets

BBC: Bailing out flooded Venice

BBC: Floodgates 'won't save Venice'

BBC: Scientists start Venice flood research

Find Article: Against the Tide.(Venice, Italy)

Christian Science Monitor: Costly Rescue for Merchants of Venice

Christian Science Monitor: Rising waters, sinking city

Christian Science Monitor: Plan to save Venice from the sea draws praise, doubts

Encyclopedia Britannica: Venice, Italy

The Age: Critics set to sink Venice flood barrier plans

TechTV: Saving Venice

Discovery: Saving the City of Canals

Smithsonian: Turning the Tide

MIT Tech Talk: Venice could provide gateway to 21st-century flood control method

USA Today: Can Venice be saved?

New York Times: If Sea Gates Don't Work, Call Canute

Washington Post: Venice Hopes Gates Will Turn the Tide

Amazon Book: Venice Against the Sea: A City Besieged