Water Supply in Venice
Paragraph 1：The city of Venice, built on saltwater marshes and crisscrossed by canals, experienced problems with its water supply for most of its history. One fifteenth-century French traveler noted that “in a city in which the inhabitants are in water up to their mouths, they often go thirsty.” How was the community to solve this important problem?
1. Why does the author include the quotation “in a city in which the inhabitants are in water up to their mouths, they often go thirsty”?
O To indicate that the French traveled to Venice frequently in the fifteenth century.
O To illustrate the opinion of other Europeans about the water situation in Venice
O To suggest that the water supply problem of Venice continued well beyond the fifteenth century.
O To emphasize how serious the water problem was in Venice.
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