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Explaining the Spring Drought
…the bank hang in the air. This is not the muddy calm after a flood – it is the kind of drought the landscape seems to be slowly getting used to. According to the Hungarian Meteorological Service, all three winter months ended well below average: December…
What Czechia's CZK 144 Billion Drought Bill Bought
The Czech agriculture ministry can list pipelines, ponds and hectares after nine years of drought spending, but in the worst groundwater summer in decades it cannot yet show what they changed.
Not Every Drought Reaches the River
…translate evenly into river-flow deficits – a finding that argues for catchment-specific drought planning.
Governments Rebuild Water Policy Around Drought Resilience
…London and Budapest all moved this week to put money, advisers and new leadership behind drought resilience, as fresh data showed how fast groundwater reserves are being drawn down.
The Returning Giant – a Super El Niño Is Coming
…has linked such extreme events to possible crop failures, wildfires, simultaneous droughts, increased flood risk and disruption to fisheries – and, as a result, to rising regional social tensions (Zero Carbon Analytics, n.d.). What the models…
Drought Outlasts Summer in London and Denver
Autumn rain has not refilled reservoirs in London or Denver, England is handing water priorities to eight regional councils, the Gulf signed deals for more desalination capacity, and new US data widened the PFAS picture as federal rules loosen.
Neglected Drinking Water Networks in ‘Model’ Europe
…a continental phenomenon that is tangible in most countries. According to the European Drought Observatory (part of the Joint Research Centre's Copernicus programme), at the end of July 50% of the EU and UK was affected by some level of drought, and 9% was…
The Po on the Brink of Drying Up, the Iberian Peninsula in Flames
…is not an isolated phenomenon but one of the most serious symptoms of a much wider drought crisis affecting the whole of southern Europe. The death throes of the Po Because of the reduced flow, salt water from the Adriatic has pushed 20–25…
Who Gets the Water? FAO's Draft Principles
Every drought ends up asking the same question: who gets the water? Sometimes the answer is written down. Often it's scattered across old permits, local customs and whoever has the deepest well. And usually it's settled in a hurry, when the river is already…
Europe's Water Systems on the Brink of Change
…however, that picture is changing fast. Alpine glaciers are losing mass, Mediterranean droughts are deeper and longer, floods are increasingly destructive – and scientists are already warning that Europe has crossed the planetary boundary for freshwater,…