Cruise Ship in the Grand Canal of Venice

Venice, Italy

Cruise ship leaves City of Venice seen from the ocean.
The city of Venice has had a problem with rising water forever. With the projected ocean rise, the threat is critical, leading to the idea of the Mose Project. The ambitious design is for a series of gates across each of the three channels into the lagoon, which when high water threatens the city, will be filled with air causing them to rise and close the channels. Instead of the initial estimate of 1.6 billion Euro, the price in 2017 was already 5.5 billion. The projected date of completion was 2011, now the hope is for 2022.