Major European river flowing through 10 countries, used for cooling nuclear plants, fishing, and shipping, increasingly strained by drought and heat.
The ministry's figure covers 1,588 hectares of dried pond and 20 farms, but carp need three or four years to reach the scales, which turns a single hot season into a revenue line that stays missing for the rest of the decade.
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IIASA traces this year's Danube low water from an April-July rainfall deficit through soils that began drying in March, four months before the river made it unmistakable.
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Most inland ports on the Rhine are unreachable by barge, average loads have fallen from 1,500 tonnes to 400, and surcharges top 1,000 euros per container.
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Budapest's escalation from dumped rock to scuttled barges to a submerged dam shows what a 2,000 MW nuclear plant actually depends on: water level.
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Cernavoda and Paks stopped for want of cooling water, not for faults. Thermal derating is turning into a July-August capacity line item rather than a weather story.
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The Korea Rural Community Corporation's own alert system now flags 986 of the 1,914 reservoirs it manages, and 269 are at critical. Romania shows what happens next when the water runs short.
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