Environment
Severe Drought Causes Historic Low Water Levels on Europe's Danube River
Deutsche Welle · 3 hours ago · Read the Full Story on Deutsche Welle
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A historic drought has drastically lowered water levels along the Danube River, severely disrupting shipping, energy supplies, and fishing across multiple European countries.
- Europe's second-longest river, the Danube, is carrying less water than in decades due to an extensive drought.
- A 71-year-old fisherman named Doru in Islaz, Romania, reported that the river is low enough to walk across in two years.
- Fishermen across Romania and Bulgaria report dramatically declining catches and lost work.
- Hundreds of boats are stranded in Novi Sad and Petrovaradin, Serbia, as hydropower output drops.
- International shipping is heavily impacted, with freighters forced to carry light loads or wait for days, and Romania-Bulgaria ferries temporarily suspended.
- Hungary reduced output at its MVM Paks nuclear power plant due to low cooling-water levels from the Danube.
- Both reactors at Romania's Cernavoda nuclear power plant were shut down simultaneously for the first time because of exceptionally low water levels.
- Low water levels near Opatovac, Croatia, exposed the complete wreck of a historic ship believed to be over 100 years old.
- Scientists warn that the severe heat waves and low water scenes along the Danube could soon become common in other parts of Europe.
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