Now its sinking largely due to the remorseless facts of geography but also because the citys residents have abused their underground water resources in venice against the sea keahey offers a detailed description of whats gone wrong and explores how the city might be saved at least temporarily through innovative engineering this is a book anybody who has fallen in love with venice will want to read yet it issues a stark warning for people in coastal cities all over the world. Venice against the sea a city besieged march 31 2014 by john keahey venice is sinking six feet over the past 1000 years the reasons for this are many although there is a natural geologic tendency for some sinking humans have exacerbated the problem by exploiting on a massive scale underground water resources for industrial purposes . Now its sinking largely due to the remorseless facts of geography but also because the citys residents have abused their underground water resources in venice against the sea keahey offers a detailed description of whats gone wrong and explores how the city might be saved at least temporarily through innovative engineering this is a book anybody who has fallen in love with venice will want to read yet it issues a stark warning for people in coastal cities all over the world. Venice against the sea a city besieged item preview remove circle share or embed this item embed embed for wordpresscom hosted blogs and archiveorg item description tags want more advanced embedding details examples and help no favorite . Venice against the sea a city besieged john keahey author st martins 2495 304p isbn 978 0 312 26594 6 more by and about this author other books a sweet and glorious land revisiting