Rome | Venice’s controversial €6 billion ($9.7 billion) sea defence barrier, known as MOSE, was designed to save the city from floodwaters that routinely engulfed the lagoon and swamped its squares and alleyways.
And while critics who claimed it would never work have been proved wrong, its success in keeping the floods at bay has had an unwelcome consequence – a dramatic rise in the rat population.
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