he was leaning on me to this area between the lagoon in the sea has been a construction site. the 17 years. there have been various interruptions in a series of corruption scandals leading to arrests. this is also why most say still has a poor reputation among many venetian the us and europe bury me as one of the most vocal critics of the project, which he says lacks transparency. which waste of public money like we've never seen before. he thinks that there are other ways of protecting the city together with a fellow campaigner from his association. he showed us the damage caused by the storms and floods. last november, many walls were destroyed, but the jew dec island served as a ball walk and prevented similar damage in other parts of the city. that will begin on monday. we want to the how much of the most a funds could be of used for effective flood protection systems in the whole city

because of climate change. there are going to be more and more storms and floods in the future, and they'll be more intense. skeptics believe in the long run, these move in the age or attic sea won't protect venice and j.m. barrie knows among them. he's also angry that the most a money wasn't used to maintain the city's historic buildings if the floods are a problem. but the ships and the crews are worse because they're causing the foundations of the city to road. and they're in danger, in the structures or in the future as well. it would make sense to drain the canals on a regular basis and renovate the foundations. but this maintenance work hasn't been done for decades. following the successful tests in october,

monica amber seanie is more optimistic about most say, and that it will be able to go into full operation in the coming year than in her the 17 year construction period and all the stress surrounding it made little finally be worth it what if we didn't need protection from rising water in the future because we lived on the water with islands and cities threatened with drowning architects are looking at how to rebuild them. 'd on the ocean surface. 'd some countries are already taking their 1st battle in the netherlands. for example, living on water in the city center. one day more than a 100 people live on the site canal in down markets. schmidt and his wife, yvonne tunney, south paramount,

the 1st residence for the slim. it's a different way of life. all this light here. the water sparkles and reflects everywhere. yes, you experience it much, much more. their house is one of 30 buildings that are part of the project. each building has its own design, but they all have one thing in common. they float on special concrete rafts fastened on to pillars. the swimming foundation needs to be able to carry several 100 tons will be balanced precisely. here at harvard is one of the project architects. because you have to go, every thing that you put on the boat, how heavy it will be. because if you put in too much weight, it will be too low and the water starts to come. in 20 different architects were

involved in the project. the houses were built on land and then brought to the dock by boat. sustainable and eco friendly materials were used for the house. this. the facade of peda reich's home is made of cork. we had some discussions with a whole group, and we had help from different pfizer's on materials. so we ended up with a list and green orange list and the red list wreckless was a no go orange was ok if you really have to because of cost reasons or technical reasons. but prefer try to use only materials from the greenest on the greenest and we liked it very much. oh, that was our choice to do so. living on water has a long tradition in our house. boats can be seen on almost every canal. one of the 1st floating districts was built a couple of years ago in a district of 50 houses on artificial islands. now the trend is spreading to other

european cities in london, for example, where british architects are planning floating homes in the royal docks. copenhagen has responded to the lack of affordable student housing with the so-called 12 floating houses designed by starting tax. he doesn't shy away from even greater visions of floating for 10000 people in regions threatened by climate change. we think we in the future, we will need more housing on the water for several reasons because this the city is very full. but also because of sea level rising, for instance. so we will need this kind of projects, and we want to be a showcase in that sense for yvonne van sarka market schmidt. this vision has become a reality $115.00 square metres, 2 floors, and a roof garden. it's almost like

a house in the countryside. but there's one difference. their entire home sways having felt sick yet, but i did have a day where i thought i need to set foot on solid ground. but it's a small price to pay for their dream of living on water. around 31000000, people want to fix it by floods across the world. last year lives were lost, possessions in a single year. flooding caused almost 70000000000 euros in economic losses for weavers in cattle, or it meant losing their livelihoods. but with the dawn, they found hope for the future. they are

this miniature dog has become a symbol of hope and resilience for the people of gaza, who survived a devastating bellew's that hit the state in 2018. and each one is made by hand from hand. that were drenched beyond repair in the flood waters when they looked the fabric just chlorinated and cleaned it still had stains and so on. and i could see that it does a lot of those because they had a way you boys could see stains that they maybe had this a thought in august 2018. dystrophic flooding that cost more than $400.00 people, their lives and $5000000.00 their homes and livelihoods. the veevers of the traditional handloom, capital of gender, among them, suffered damages that were a cemented to be around $150000000.00 rupees. a close to $1700000.00 euros. it left

them paralyzed. but on the radio, all the equipment was destroyed. they were broken to the point to be felt. there was no way we could salvage them. i was the one who had, i've posted, i saw the die a condition. i remember thinking i weaving days are over. we would have to start from scratch and that was unlikely to get a lot of the limbs. traditional hind limbs are used around 500 authors who for generations have been grieving with a fine art of courting. the young that is hardly found in india today. soon after the flood, scorching based designer, shalini james corden, touch with the viewers supported by her network of designer friends. she dry cleaned some of the fabric and also managed to raise funds for the community, who would say,

what indeed for the society was that most of their confidence gave the reverse. you know, some light of hope that you know, there are people out there people they've never seen or heard of before. who are interested in keeping to the problem. the fear that a large quantity of their fabric had been damaged beyond repair and had become. but this luxury menin is one of 2 designers who came up with the project to make dollars from the fabric that could be save their own cottage. people not only to buy the dog, but also to participate in making them a different guy. a dog that does actually made in 9 countries buy 815-0000, what it is, the expression, the decoration, everything is different in me. it's actually that makes it all the more, you know, beautiful people are very keen to be part of it because they feel that if they've

make one chick with a dog, they also have one fat, one brick in rebuilding. ringback one of the 500 societies that contribute to their church had lost fabric once or what do 1000000 rupees or around going 220000 euros in the flock. but the sale of dollars brought in almost $3400000.00 rupees, or almost $39000.00 euro as for the in just 4 months. take pride in their new identity by the people, you know, if i work as the weavers of john the mongol, i'm but now because of she could be more people interested in finding out more about us and what we do anyway. let me ask gotta love, prepare the school climate change induced floods again next year. perhaps the represent a dying testament to the state's resilient spirit. thank you for

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