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  • Venice - Lagoon: The MOSE System for the Defence Against High Waters
    Interview with Dr. Maria Teresa Brotto, Head of the Department of Design of the Mose Project, Consorzio Venezia Nuova. Dr Brotto, who is in New York to participate to ILICA's 5th Annual Conference "Saving Venezia & Protecting New Orleans" (September 25th) explains how this Italian high-tech project will work and why it provides the right answer to Venice's flooding problems.
  • On 9/25 an international conference in New York will be dedicated to MO.S.E. (acronym for Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico, or Experimental Electromechanical Module.) Here is an interview with Cav. Vincenzo Marra, President of ILICA, and Professor Anthony J. Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute