Europe's rivers are running dry as the climate crisis worsens | DW News

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Much of Europe and the Northern Hemisphere is battling either wildfires, low water levels, harvest warnings, water use restrictions or a mixture of all these. In Germany, one core focus of the drought is the Rhine River, which ultimately connects the Alps with the North Sea. Europe's second-longest river after the Danube, it is also a core shipping lane for western Germany. It is still open to freight traffic for now, but already boats are unable to run fully laden. Germany's Federal Institute of Hydrology warned on Thursday that without rain, one notorious shallow point on the river could become completely impassable next week.

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It's ironic that in a drought with water levels falling and the ships that carry the fuel that actually is in part the cause of global warming, coal, are having a hard time going down the river!

thesilentgeneration
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Rain water collection systems and storage need to become part of every home and business building.
What little rain there is should not be wasted.

KJSvitko
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Meanwhile areas of Australia that burned in fire only a couple of years ago are experiencing once in a hundred year floods multiple times in 2 years. Droughts, fires and floods have always existed but the severity, frequency and unpredictability are all getting worse.

SpencerHHO
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Wow, never thought I would see the day that Europe's rivers would be so low, I remember traveling there as a kid and just amazed by the beauty. Its honestly incredibly shocking, I didn't realize just how bad it is.

Maya_Ruinz
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In Australia, we experience these things on a regular basis. Unfortunately, with the climate becoming more extreme, so are the impacts from them. 2019 saw the whole country burn, then flood in early 2020, flood again this year, and we are being warned to brace for a very wet summer.

paulboger
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the fact that it is already this bad worries me. we are nowhere near stopping co2 emmisions. it will get worse before it will get better

LSD
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Incredible that upscale stores had open doors with air-conditioning up to now. I was surprised when walking down streets in cities in Europe feeling the A/C from the stores. Incredible.

govinda
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*When it rains, the water is **_meant_** to seep into the ground, which soaks up the water like a sponge.*
In a world that is covered with bitumen, concrete, buildings and stormwater drainage, rainwater exits the land far too quickly, hurtling back to the sea.

redpoppy
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We used to think one day it shall be bad in future not knowing that the future is now.we used to think our grandchildren will have it hard but we have it hard now.

martinchitembo
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"as the climate crisis worsens" - it's not worsening within a few months, we just see the full extent now

aNDY-yum
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We experience this in CapeTown, South Africa. For 3 years drought creep into Cape Town. Some of our rivers dried up. We we're limited on water and we we're told that they will shutdown millions of water taps but we as a country came together and prayed for days. The Lord came through for us. The Lord send the rain...I think we experienced a week of non stop rain. Praise the Lord. It is only for a city to come together before Jesus Christ and pray.

Renaldiize
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I actually remember flying to Italy back in the middle of June just before the massive heat wave started attacking Europe. Just crazy to see how things have gone since then...

justincoleman
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Some years ago it was expected that there would be drought in the future.but now there
is no need to say that there will be drought in the future because that terrific future has already arrived.

wanderer-
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A year ago the UK was suffering from unprecedented rain and floods thanks to Storm Bella. Rivers were so full the banks had burst causing floods all over the country. It's a very dry summer, soon it will be raining again and we'll be miserable.

kashattack
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plant more trees = they hold water and release transpiration
harvest more water during rainy seasons, so it is stored for the dry months

carsonchan
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I went to the beach at Bournemouth, UK this morning and its so nice to get +30c! But, watching the wildfire over the bay was a bit sad. Its probably too late, but its clearly time to act, the work required will stimulate a lot of economies and allow Europe to be independent energy wise.

bhew
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This all seems like it's a cycle that comes and goes, just hope the rain that's gonna come don't come in metres, and not in inches

charliebrown
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This is terrifying. Everything is connected and it's a huge dominoe effect. This infuriates me because we have little time to change things before we tip the scales but not in our favor...

TheGassy
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Ya know... employing the line, "the new normal" falsely suggests 1) There was a recent normal; debatable... anyone who believes there was such a thing perhaps mistakes their "nostalgia" for "stability" and to the point, 2) The extreme condition (weather, terror threats, lock downs, etc) will become "normal". Pandemic policies & fundamentalism aside, the extreme weather condition, as predicted by the scientific community, will continually worsen so the idea of "new normal" suggests weather will stabilize in the coming future, which it wont. It's gonna get waaaay fk'n worse. There wont be such a thing as "normal".... unless people who use this line are subscribing to the same logic as stating "there are no absolute truths". You can thank all the Cartesian doubters out there. While they provided corporations/govts the support they needed to do nothing, they also forced the scientific bar to be so high you can be 99.9999% certain we're ALL fk'd. Anyways.... sorry kids. Good luck.

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In the '80s, I remember a prediction from a climate scientist that as "global warming " (as it was termed at the time) will mean extreme weather events will increase on frequency and intensity.

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