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		</div><p>Waters have been rising again in Venice, just three days after the Italian lagoon city experienced its worst flooding in more than 50 years.</p>
<p>Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said he was forced to ask police to block off the famous St Mark’s Square, which was already covered in knee-high water on Friday morning.</p>
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<p>Workers in thigh-high boots began removing the platforms used by the public to cross the square without getting wet.</p>
<figure id="attachment_144216" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-144216" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-144216" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/F60892CC-FC8D-4153-96CE-6C432B532C70.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-144216" class="wp-caption-text">Workers carry wooden boards to create a bridge in Venice</figcaption></figure>
<p>The city saw the second-worst flooding on record on Tuesday when the water level reached more than six feet above sea level, prompting the Italian government to declare a state of emergency.</p>
<p>On Thursday, the government also approved 20 million euros in funding to help Venice repair the most urgent damage.</p>
<p>Venice’s mayor said the damage is estimated at hundreds of millions of euros and blamed climate change for the “dramatic situation” in the historic city.</p>
<p>He called for the speedy completion of the city’s long-delayed Moses flood defence project.</p>
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<p>Tuesday’s devastating floods have reignited a long debate on Moses, a multibillion-euro flood defence project that has been under construction since 2003.</p>
<p>The project has not yet been activated, after being delayed a number of times due to corruption scandals, cost overruns and environmentalist opposition over its impact on Venice’s lagoon ecosystem.</p>
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