• redtea
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    1 year ago

    On a local level, they pumped so much freshwater for bottling from beneath Venice that it started to sink. They had to stop that and now all the wells are blocked with iron grates.

    Good, really, for the long term – there’s little special about Venetian water; if people need to drink or bottle water, there are far more efficient locations to source it from. But then, I wouldn’t be allowing the international shipping of any water unless it’s an emergency. The carbon footprint is huge and almost entirely unnecessary.