Fabled Canals of Venice and Climate Change

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Tourism dwindles

Climate change is causing the fabled canals of Venice a global beeline for tourist to dry up. The reasons are attributed to consistent low or ebb tides, siltation in the canal network , scarcer alpine snow drastically lowering water levels in reservoirs such as Lake Garda which are the watersheds of the Alps and persistent drought like weather patterns.

Credit BBC Science Focus Magazine

The UN has sounded the alarm that droughts are likely to  affect the livelihood of around 55 million people which may disrupt food security  and lead to famine.