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Danube Drought Exposes Secrets and Struggles | San Antonio News
The Danube River is in crisis, hitting record-low water levels so extreme that shipwrecks and sandbars are surfacing—Budapest’s water dropped to just 23 centimeters, shattering a 2018 record. Months of drought, fueled by relentless heatwaves and near-zero rainfall, have crippled shipping: cruise ships can’t dock, cargo vessels are stranded, and tourists were evacuated from a grounded ship in Bulgaria. In Serbia, hundreds of boats sit abandoned on dry riverbanks, while nuclear plants in Romania and Hungary must shut down reactors or cut power due to insufficient cooling water. Even history is…
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