The great and beautiful Shanghai is submerging into sea each year; China has dump massive engineering effort in, only to slow down the process by bits each year. They plan to maintain the rate of sinking at 7 mm each year.
Between the years 1990 to 1999, it was more than 16 mm annually 2000 – 12.1 mm 2001 - 10.9 mm 2002 – 10.2 mm 2003 – 9.5 mm 2004 – 8.7 mm 2005 – 8.3 mm 2006 – 7.5 mm
In fact, many costal city around the World faces the same problem
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