Europe's rivers are running dry as the climate crisis worsens | DW News
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- čas přidán 11. 08. 2022
- 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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#drought #rhine #heat
"transporting cargo including coal, oil and gas" .. how exceedingly ironic
Even a frightening addiction...
The revenge of H2O haha
And sounds like the perfect time to go solar, can be attached to every home and can be sent back to the grid.. xx
Crying on media about how truck drivers are dying of lung cancer, hence, this is affecting the transportation of tobacco. Hahahaha
As promised "beg"!!!!
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.
They've determined that even rain water isn't safe anymore for drinking.
The water must flow?
They'll just lob solar panels atop everything and act like it conserved fresh water, somehow.
Side rant: Nobody in a position of power is reading the writing on the wall and leading a proper ecological charge. They're all saying, "we'll have it later, and we're totally working a solution right now, I pinky swear" but there is absolutely no tangible change in everyone's daily lives. The literal rivers disappear and they act as though it is of zero consequence. "What harm is there in the death of a fertile basin?" is what they're thinking, from an executive's pool party.
@@labourlawact7826 Been like that for decades, nothing new, just make it drink able 💁♂️
@@labourlawact7826 You can have other uses for it
Ironically there is too much heavy metal, arsenic and other toxins in rainwater... from fossil fuel burning. Other industrial pollutions too, but mostly fossil fuel burning by a wide margin. The type of stuff an adult might just suffer mildly from, though still get a negative impact all the same, but young children and especially unborn children can take severe damage from. From poor brain development to other physiological abnormalities. Maybe once we've kicked the fossil fuels habit.
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.
Last year 2021 was the opposite in Europe, rivers were too full of water, floods in central Europe and London. Next year, 2023, will probably be a normal summer.
This is not something new. rivers drying up has happened before
Was the same in 1976 ..this is nothing new...
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chemtrail, climate manipulation.... by own government....
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.
Here by us in Cape Town, the climate is also changing rapidly. A whole month's rain falls in 20 minutes, but there's still a huge drought. 😢😢😢
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The most realistic scenario is +4,0°C. We already reached 1,2°C.
@@halleffect5439 At 4deg we're basically fuckt.
That water has to go somewhere, maybe the southern hemisphere...
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!
It was safer to burn gas. But...
Too simplistic. Another important factor is human over-use of the rivers for irrigation and cities. Also, the climate has been warming for 20,000 years, how much of the recent warming is due to burning fossil fuels is a matter of speculation rather than fact.
@@DaveParkerNZ66 Not another wannabe expert, every scientist disagrees, opinion rejected.
@@DaveParkerNZ66 OK so explain the dramatic spike in long time average temperatures that starts right after the industrial revolution. Yes the climate naturally cools and warms, but not in the "dramatic" and quickness we've seen in the last hundred years. Quickness relatively I mean.
It's called nature's intelligence
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.
I think recently burned areas are less capable of absorbing rainfall. We had terrible landslides in California because of heavy rain shortly after a wildfire.
@@magesalmanac6424 that's right. Green growing cover stabilises soil with root systems and captures rain
Those were the fires where people got burned alive in their cars as they waited too long to evacuate. What a horrible horrible painful death that must have been. 😢😢😢
@@tiermacgirl - and, the plants keep the soil cooler.
😅🤣
*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.
That may be true in cities, but most land is not covered, we are seeing less gentle long duration rain fall and more short intense high volume rain fall, leading to drought and food cycles.
The way you get rid of most of this asphalt and concrete, is by eliminating parking lots and highways
@@AlleyTrashBoards No, the elephant in the room is that asphalt replaces trees and natural ground (soil) - All in the name of an incredibly inneffecient means of transporting large amounts of people (cars)
We do not need to wait decades for some new miracle greenwashing technology to be invented, all we need is walkability and good public transit. Europe is pretty leading in this regard but they could still do better.
Not to mention all the extra people using up more of the water supply
@@chappy2121 But use of the water supply is a given when a population of people exist
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.
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.
They were getting cheap Russian energy
@@jelenatj1825 Europe without cheap Russian energy is going to look like an entirely different place and unfortunately I don't think it's going to be for the better. Renewables just aren't there yet and even if they were the EU's geography just seems kinda bad compared to countries like China, the US and Russia.
@@PendulumCancel the Iberian peninsula could supply all Europe with solar in summer and Scandinavia with hidro and wind in winter, it's a matter of time and investment, not geography.
@@PendulumCancel renewables in Europa actually have the capacity to produce a lot, but the problem has been the weather, we've had too little wind for wind turbines, and dry weather has emptied out hydropower reservoirs, here in Norway, where we're a mostly hydro-reliant nation, the shortage of water in reservoirs have been a big issue
@@PendulumCancel i cant wait for Europe's children to freeze in their beds this winter! All because their elites must "punish Russia" 😂
"as the climate crisis worsens" - it's not worsening within a few months, we just see the full extent now
This is nothing like the full extent. Wait 50 years.
When this is over, most people will forget and continue their lives as nothing is going on. I have to laugh more and more with the people who think the next 50 years will be the same as the previous 50 years.
@@E3ECO Even that probably won't be anywhere near the main extent. The "absolute" worst extent is that Earth ends up like Venus. However, that is a long ways away. And we will have died before that point, most likely. But our transition is entirely where humanity's suffering will be.
@@TommyElijahCabelloReal Why do you think the 1% will try to live on the moon or Mars?
@@TommyElijahCabelloReal Venus is my kind of girl. Cannot wait.
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.
Well don't be miserable just buy more toys from China so that you'll forget that the toys you've just bought from China are causing the pollution which is going to end the planet in the next 20 years
A possible suggestion for collecting rainwater when there is no rainfall - overnight my verandah roof has condensation dripping down off its roof as it runs down to each supporting beam and thus anything directly underneath those beams gets wet right under the full length of each beam so has to be placed within the gap/spacing between of each metal beam to stay dry.
The Entire roof is corrugated sheet metal and with some plastic skylighting which also runs condensation down to each metal beam - yet the same arrangement of corrugated sheet metal on the metal beams in the garage/shed never gets condensation forming. I suspect it's because the Roof in the Shed is enclosed by walls.
So an open air arrangement of corrugated sheet metal gets the condensation dripping down from it because the underside is seemingly cooled off faster with no walls to stop wind colling it down rapidly to form the condensation.
Not sure what use this observation is to anybody but some brainiac might be able to come up with a better arrangement for collecting condensation from an open roof.
ironically had the builders of the metal roofing supports beams placed them the other way to what they are it would have run down the channels of each beam to the ends of those beams and kept anything underneath dry. Incidentally the roof is high and of gabled design so reversing the beams the other way would only work on a gabled roof and the beams are this shape [ but with an upward curl on the [ shaped beam to act as a gutter - if you can visualize what I'm attempting to describe that is. 🙃
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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.
our grandchildren will have it harder if we don't change in time
Its good this way
@@michalipiperakis9380 there won't be any
Actually since about 15 years old I predicted all this would start showing effects by 2020, and here we are.
There are quite a few scientists that knew this was coming and I'm sad to say but it's going to get much much worse. The next 3 years will be our last.
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.
Meh... this is nothing. Climate change only kicks into high gear in the late 21 century, early 22 century. About 50-70 years from now. This is the kiddy pool before we are thrown into the adult pool and are forced to swim or drown.
🤔
True. Its comming faster then they says. Trust me.
They say "We will toast slowly".
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I am thinking of the wildlife impacted by all these droughts and fires.
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Here in northwest Bulgaria in Europe our local river is not dry for first time in years, and we have water all year around and the temperatures were not all that heigh. Hopefully next year it's the same
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...
What they don't say...
They shut down most of thermoelectric central and force hydroelectric to keep produce. In the past we stopped hydro power a lot sooner...
@@luisamaral4074 My country has zero hydroelectric power. We only have flat lands, fjords, still lakes, and the open sea.
Walking on the grass that is usually wet with morning dew till 3 in the afternoon is right now so dry, it sounds like walking on a floor of rice crackers. And steps leave behind clearly visible footprints.
This is absolutely insane. There are no odd governmental conspiracies to blame for this. This is real.
it is...saw a pic of the Loire River in France all but dry with a trickle. They report that this has not happened in a millenia. Its certainly cause for concern.
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chemtrail, climate manipulation.... by own government....
plant more trees = they hold water and release transpiration
harvest more water during rainy seasons, so it is stored for the dry months
And stop creating wars : Pollution
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trees dont grow overnight
I live near a river which has moved upwards to the edges. In the last few days. That was before the short rain day. Thats in Sussex, England.
the problem is working physically hard in shops in heat: i have to fetch huge heavy items for customers going up and down many stairs, on top i have hot flushes, sometimes i faint from the heat
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
Honestly mate I don’t think it will get better
It is NOT going to get better. Water loss WILL cause global war, famine, pestilence. Humans can live without a lot of things, but the singular thing they cannot live without, is water.
Even the Bread Basket is affected.
Our aquifers are emptied our lakes and rivers are drying.
But, the powers that be are worried about "birth rates".
Only the rich and comfortable think it's okay to intentionally bring children into a world in which, as it stands today, they will likely not even reach adulthood. For the ruling Elite and their comfortable minions, maintaining their expendable and renewable workforce is Paramount.
They will maintain their riches and comfort on the ashes of our coattails as we plunge into the abyss together.
Not a single person alive today will see it get better
NASA studies recently made public show that germany has lost groundwater over the past decade and will continue to loose groundwater. This is a trend not easily reverted. Companies like Coca Cola(just one example, there are many more) should be forbidden to use ground- or tabwater. Equally companies that use lots of water for their production cycle need to invest into public desalanation plants.(No, these shall not be in private hands, this would just make these gold diggers profiteering from misery).
There are already some measures on the way where past attempts to straighten rivers(increasing their depth and flow to be used by ships aswell hindering natural flooding) and the establishing of barrier lakes all had adverse effects on groundwater and now flooding will be reintroduced to wider areas. This will take time to take effect and in drought years like now it just isn't happening at all.
For water consumption we need a bunch of desalination plants as we here in germany do have a coast line. As we are already building offshore windparks, those may deliver the needed energy for that. MIT studies have shown further processing to reduce the environmental impact of brine water which usually was reintroduced into the sea and i expect more studies into that direction may make this a better option otherwise we will need landfill with groundwater protection.
Maybe you should leave???
Pray for Europe
Things are going to get worse in conin years
In Bangladesh we are experiencing drought like summer this year / 2022. Lowest rainfall in 41 years. But fortunately rivers are not dried up like that Europe. Temperature hits 42deg.
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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.
Won't make a blind bit of difference if china and India and Brazil keep burning coal.fact
If our governments spent half as much effort in mitigation and water management as they do on punishing us for using energy, we'd all be a lot better off. Look at Venice. It took millions of Euros and almost 30 years to install its flood barrier system. Where are the hydro- and thermo-electric projects? Where are the new desalination plants? Why didn't they accept President Trump's generous offer of US LNG, even offering to build the terminals?
Indeed. But it won't be easy. Still far better than rely on Russia.
Yeah we need nuclear and renewables
@@seanmurphy2365 We first need to stop that mad man in Moss Cow, and eliminate him.
Oh my goodness!
In New York we are getting there very fast, it has not rained in 3 weeks and no rain is forecasted in the coming weeks
We are facing an existential "tragedy of the commons" threat ... and we are failing miserably! Our grandchildren will look back on our failures with deserved anger. 😔
they will all become little Gretas..... "how dare you.!!!"
Our grandchildren will be amused by yet another extraordinary popular delusion. The Climate Delusion. The false and delusional belief that mans effects on the earth’s climate are significant and dangerous.
Most people will die. Prépare to meet god .. well if you don't believe in the only god .. meeting him will be eternally hellish
@Ryan B. - Your grandchildren may not make it if this continues! Many will die due to droughts, flooding & famine. Get prepared or perish! Move if you need to do so to get above the 1000 year flood zone!
@@annking1576 get prepared or perish... ? Actually it's get prepared to perish
That why when rain comes, I am really happy. I like rain more than anything.
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It's scary and sad at the same time
Meanwhile in West and Middle Norway it has been new records in rain. It has been the wettest summer in 10 years with temperatures as low as 4- 5 degrees. I haven't seen the sun this year. 😭
The people of earth need to band together and hold the corporations and politicians accountable.
as well as themselves, consumerism drives the market.
@@daveffs1935 and also people vote politicians. hold voters accountable
Let's use ecosia 👍🌱🌲🌱🌳
I live in the Scottish Highlands and we have had, for us, a warm and dry summer. However, compared to nearly everywhere else in Europe the grass-fields are quite green although reservoirs are quite low. We had quite a lot of thunder rain last night and are expecting more.
If you consider that the troposphere is thinng going to the poles, higher latitudes will suffer more than areas towards the equator.
Also, could you use SOLAR , to run led lights??
@@charlesayache6801 BS. The summer was normal. The worst drought were 1400 and 1870-74 (China).
Here in Finland we have had quite a normal summer, some weeks hot, some weeks cooler. I'm sad to read about the drought in so many countries. Somehow we always seem lucky in the North. We don't rely on Russian gas either.. By staying united, we will overcome this too. In Finland solar power has been a boom for a decade, installed on everything from big shopping centers to summer cottages.I hope and believe that the droughts in the world this year+ Russian aggression and interrupting Ukraine as a bread basket will accelerate wind and solar power all over the world.
@@percreig Here in Israel we nearly have six months without rain but dryness is accelerating. We recycle nearly 90% of the water we use and desalinate a lot but it all costs energy...
It is going to get pretty cold this winter too, without any heat
Government's need to get started on water purification systems and canals.
It is so very heartening that there are noble people in this world, as in Spain, who do what must be done for those they have pledged to do certain things.
Shame nobody can understand what you're saying
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The planet controls the climate regardless of how noble people may be.
@@WolfHeathen Chinese pollution is controlling the planet at the moment but mother nature will fight back
what about planting more trees and stop cutting the ones we have? and seriously think about a progressive voluntary population degrowth
World's economic Forum weather modification at work
If only people.hated global warming as much as CNN helps everyone.hate trump....if only
We have to end idealisum of money in any form whatsoever. There are ways.
Pray first.
what is the temperature there to become rivers go dry ?
It seems that when temp reach 90 100 degrees and is steady at those temp that's when things go wrong
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...
We have HAD the time, and have failed to use it.
its nonsnse. calm down
@@jamesgowing3856 OMG. Climate change denier alert!
@@labourlawact7826 oh my god climate fibber alert. 😬
😂🤡
So if ancient structures are emerging from the water, does that not imply that water levels were once much lower?
The structures are emerging out of man made reservoirs!
Dams in big rivers where waters are diverted for cultivation also contributes to drier climate, the rivers and lake drying up because their water sources are being diverted.
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.
It is the climate chaos era.
Water wars incoming.
@Crisp Muncher loony tune warning!
The issue is that the few things govts./corporations have done, are mostly inventing carbon credits(which are traded as commodities), co2-budgets and ESGs, which do little to lessen the actual co2 emissions or even prepare the infrastructure for decentralized generation. If we would build a few goddamn nuclear plants, that's like half the climate problem curbed. But these climate warriors are equally opposed to nuclear as they are to continuing as we were, basically tying our hands to get by with renewables.
Luckily we're getting an example of how this goes with Germany. Unfortunately, if Germany falls apart, so will the EU.
Probably the worst experiment since WW2.
@@rey_nemaattori no & nope & completely wrong.
Absolutely terrifying what we have done. All the forests, insects, fish, marine life and birds all could be gone .
things come and go
Atlantic Ocean - and now Monarch butterflies are an endangered species! Why are politicians letting our planet die? WHY? All for money. I am disgusted by my fellow humans. Our beautiful Europe is dying as is so much of the earth. 😥😥😥😥
@@lzrd8460 oh well
@@lzrd8460 honestly monarch butterfly's do it to themselves. There so dumb. I do loft conversions and you fine a good 20 crispy monarchs in each.
If you've ever seen the mass animal death list, you'd wonder how we have any left right now already...
The biggest drought in Europe was in 1540.The civilization of the Maya collapsed due to a drought. And they lived on cities in the middle of the jungle. And there usually rains.And usually rains a lot.
The biggest heat wave in Europe was in 1911 when 41 thousands people died of heat only in Paris.
Scholars have no idea what really happened to the Mayan civilization. You can't say for certain it was drought.
Well, at least in the South of Germany was A LOT of rain and the Rhine should fill up a bit again.
As long as the governments of the major European countries ignore warnings about climate change, it will only get worse and worse. Profit is above reason. In the last 20 years there have been warnings, but profit has been more important, when will politicians realize this serious climate change threat?
When voters stop voting in politicians who r more concerned w/enriching themselves and protecting the coal, oil, gas corporations and the money from the most corrupt and horrible autocratic countries which r rich in oil. If one party or faction of a party doesn’t vote for climate change mitigation, green energy, doesn’t vote for enough mitigation/green energy, or votes for mitigation/green energy while also expanding coal, oil, or gas, like in the US the GOP who won’t vote for any climate change mitigation and protect these greedy corporations/autocrats or Dem establishment who say they support climate change mitigation, who passed a decent bill putting over $300 billion for climate change mitigation policies over the next 10yrs but which increase leasing public lands and water for oil leasing, which must be done before any climate change mitigation policies can begin for that year, increases government subsidies for oil corporations, adds a new pipeline, etc which feels like one step forward and two steps back, don’t vote for a different politician in those same parties (GOP)/factions (establishment Dems), vote for a politician in a more leftward faction, like a far-left Dem in the US system. In the US, the far-left Dems r also least corrupt, r passionate/activists for the M&L classes, r some of the poorest politicians we have (look at Bernie, for a guy who has been in the government for forever but has refused to sell out to enrich himself like Dem establishment and the GOP have), support the modern version FDR far-left Dem policies which is what pulled the US out of the Great Depression, invested in long-term growth, high return on investment domestic programs, led us through WWII successfully, saving ourselves and helping our friends to save their democracies, significantly decreased our income and wealth inequality, creating the largest M class in the world at that time, widespread prosperity, made the wealthy/corporations pay their fair share of taxes/switched from a regressive tax code to a progressive tax code, supported to most labor unions the US has ever had, broke up many of the monopolies/oligopolies, created a well-funded and well functioning local, state, and federal government, dems controlled most state legislatures, the house, senate, and WH most of the time from 1933-1979, moved us from an Oligarchy to a democracy/social democracy, created a fair economy for all income levels and all business sizes, increased opportunities and social mobility for the M&L classes, created the M class dream, etc. We began to lose that more democratic/social democratic, for the ppl government in the 1971 when a republican Supreme Court justice sent a memo to the US Chamber of Commerce titled, “The Lewis Powell Memo: a Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy.” We then allowed our government to become captured by the wealthy and corporations w/the landslide election of Reagan, a far-right republican, in 1980. We’ve been on the same Reagan policies ever since. To move closer to democracy/social democracy and reverse the damaging GOP policies since 1971/1980, we need another landslide election of a far-left Dem president, Dem congress, and dem control of most state legislatures, repeat 1932 US election and then keep Dems in control of government most of the time. That would result in the ppl taking back our government to work for all Americans and the US as a whole, not mostly just for the wealthy/corporations, putting profits before common sense, like on gun control in the US, single payer healthcare, a comprehensive immigration bill, bring the national debt down after the initial investment into long-term growth, high return on investment programs, decrease/eliminate US corporations using the US for our rule of law and unfair economy while using the cheap labor countries for many of the jobs which used to be good paying manufacturing jobs in the US.
Well, Profits just for the billionaires and millionaires owning shares in FF industry. Profits made on the backs of Poor and the Middle class who have to suffer climate change consequences.
It’s the lack of more frequent and severe tropical cyclones that have affected the drought conditions. Global climate change theorists have claimed for years that tropical cyclones were going to be getting worse. It look like those theories were false.
@@pahunter3 Still denying reality of the house being on fire whilst the house is literaly on fire around you? I see.
@@bengagnon2894 these guys always use some anecdotal story to try to advance the overwhelming data that climate change is happening
Other than maybe modern Zeppelins i can't imagine anything that could replace a river for transportation purposes. Railways take too long to be built and are too inflexible in comparison.
Concerning the water shortage, which NASA studies suggest will become normal here in germany, i would go with desalination plants and a sweetwater network spanning complette germany if not europe. There are already attempts under way to make rivers flood certain zones again as they did before all the rivers were made straight and barrier lakes were built, which therefor would help groundwater to replenish, but that too is something that needs to balance itself out over longer period of time and till then rationing will be needed and companies like Coca Cola should not be allowed anymore to use up ground- or tabwater.
so more pollution by desalination plants(requiring energy and resurses) !? and stfu with cocacola banning (which is literally just tea with few essences aromas + carbonated water) WHILE HOW MUCH WATER IT'S WASTED IN FOOD CREATION + DRINKING WATER AND THEIR CORPSES PROCESSING/WASHING AFTER KNIFINGS OF COWS AND PIGS CORPSES AND SECRETIONS. A LITER OF MILK(ANIMAL SECRETION) CONSUMES FEW TIMES (NOT ONLY DOUBLE) MORE POTABLE WATER TO OBTAIN THAT LITER, TRANSFORMING WATER AND FOOD INTO URINE FECES AMONIA CO2 ETC POLLUTION AS A RESULT.
JUST DON'T WASTE OUR TIME WITH MISINFORMATION AND HERRINGS AND SMEARING NOISE MISLEADINGS.
It takes a lot of energy to power a desalination plant. Which is perhaps a "little problem" these days in the EU. No gas. No fuel. No water. Even Saudi Arabia buys Russian oil just to power their desalination plants, so that they can export their own crude... at high price :-)
Railways are inflexible compared to _the rivers_ they would be replacing?
@@MelkorPT Yes, I thought that was funny as well. Try digging out a new river over laying track!
@@MelkorPT They actually are. If a ship breaks during the trip it usually just drifts to the side on its own, or is dragged there, and the other ships move around it. When a train breaks the entire track is blocked. And if it's some accident we're talking about several hours, even days of that section of the track being unusable. Also ships/barges carry huge amount of cargo. To replace that with a train, you'll need very, very long compositions, that need the appropriate train stations to maneuver, load and unload.
How is it that no one is accountable for the lack of energy?
We experienced this in Australia about 10 years ago. It's really scary isn't it. Hugs to Europeans.
I remember taking a day trip / cruise up the Rhine River. It was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen . ❤️🩹
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.
@@mayatara1980 it's never too late. So long as you operate under the premise that none of us are as dumb as all of us, you stand a decent chance of not being jaded.
I heard similar mentions of this in the 80’s as well. Hold on!
The phenomena is unavoidable, they just gave a name to it. Earth’s climate is continuing changing, it won’t be unstable for ever, it never was.
@@androsRoccha the point is that if over 90% of climate scientists have come to consensus that the issue is man man - like acid rain or the ozone layer - then we are responsible for either stopping it or mitigating the effect. Only short sighted solipsists would wheeze otherwise.
In the 60s and 70s we were told that there would be no wildlife by 2000, that we were going into a new ice age, and that there would be no oil by 1990. Don't be played!
Since effects lag emissions by 15 years it will get MUCH wose for decades as we havent even cut emissions yet and the environment cant absorb anymore heat..
You are right,Bohdan. We are out of time. Our only hope is some advanced civilization thinks humanity is worth saving.
Here in Birmingham UK we are being subjected to chem trail spraying that produce clouds over the day. Perhaps this spraying is affecting and reducing normal levels of rainfall.
I live near the longest river in Italy, the Po river, and honestly in these years they didn't stop building and my region Veneto is now 80%covered in cement, I am so angry because they literally called the shortage of water and now they act surprised, also the 20% are crop fields, no natural space at all, what do you expect?
Many countries are going through drought and intense heat such as living in a desert and the impacts that this causes such as economics, agriculture and livestock, water management and supply, industry, hydroelectric power generation, environmental impacts, water, soil, air, living organisms , protected natural spaces, pollution and increase in forest fires.
There's definitely something wrong with the climate. Here in South Africa in Cape Town it's much colder this winter than usual, and the rain has all but disappeared. 😢😢😢
There is no global warming sure the medevil church was built hundreds of years ago when the water level was lower .
Exactly so a country should make an stock of commodities nowadays. If there was 7 year tribulation recorded in the Bible in Egypt, a country should copy the strategy of preserving products in time of crisis.
You forgot to mention the biggest threat of all, war.
It starts locally, one state against another but very soon after the positions have been taken and it will spread like a drop of oil on water on a hot day..
@@labourlawact7826 Clearly, the cold weather there is a result of global warming.
The fact that this is still called "a dry spell" goes to underlying denial that climate isn't "changing" but has, indeed, "changed."
yep
@@alntr2872 yes changed, but still changing. For the worse!
And what do you can think about the famine rocks? In that documents droughts in 1417, 1616, 1707, 1746, 1790, 1800, 1811, 1830, 1842, 1868, 1892 e 1893.?
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Additionally we find tons of WW2 explosive munition in the Rhine river.
The exploding ordnance clearing service is very busy in and has to blow up a bomb sometimes...
Feeling the desert 🏜 weather for the first time.
The lack of hurricanes and tropical storms seem to be having an impact. I thought that global climate change was to result in more frequent and stronger tropical cyclones that would be actually bringing more rain to Europe?
true, here in the UK we've not had a single thunderstorm in my area this year (Warwickshire, Midlands) the weather just seems to have ground to a halt, whereas normally we used to see change every couple of days, now it's a round ever 5 weeks
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this is so sad I love Europe , it's so much cleaner then America and great public transportation , there's so much to see and do there , I wish all countries would of taken action on global warming years ago , this is so heartbreaking, I am afraid it will just keep getting worse now all because nothing got done much sooner
Most of Europe is cold for most of the year.
Cleaner? Hmm I have traveled all over Europe (Western and Eastern). I travel to Europe every year. Cleaner does not come in mind at all. lol
We need to move to Mars and start over.
Singapore is clean, not Europe lol
@@TheScottab we have made a pretty good job of screwing this planet up and we have already “nuked” mars when the lander we sent there crashed. I think we have done enough damage tbh. Oh and another thing, Mr Musk doesn’t want you or me going to Mars, he wants to go there yes, but to get away from the rest of us.
Ashuthosh Pandey needs to be in a review room right now. Remember that you are supposed to be a reporter for DW… that’s something you need to check in your life.
Same in Finland. We had/still have so many days with +35 degrees and more. Lakes are drying out. On many days it feels like I can't breath. I feel like I live in a tropical environment. And then with sabmving energy and water, because of the inflation, is so hard because I have a baby and a small kid. I'm not sure if I can pay all this inflation. I have bought meat now in a few month, it's just too expensive, 400g for 13€! Before the war between Russia and Ukraine started we paid for 400g about 4 or 5€ 😢
"This is the lowest since 1995..." ummm soooo this is all normal? Haha 😂
Climate is about averages over longer periods, this is the second or third extreme hot summer already, so the averages are indeed changing, June and July, here in the Netherlands, are normally the wettest months of the year...
I feel like this summer actually isn't this bad, the last year's were really crazy but this summer? I feel like it wasn't extreme
It's been dry in the Netherlands too now hasn't it?
Climate is about average changes over time. However it is climate change that is making extreme drought, heat waves more likely both of which are affecting Europe increasingly.
Crops are failing in Italy and Spain and France because of drought. Yet Hollands PM Rutte wants to close Dutch Farms because of Davos and EU policies. This is madness to the extreme. You guys in Holland need to get rid of this mad man Rutte and leave the EU. They obviously do not know what is right and what is wrong.
@@albertinsinger7443 the only reason that this is done is due to court orders as well. The government has to follow the court orders to the best of their abilities, because otherwise law and order will soon enough cease to exist. Plus, with the toxic nitrogen levels the major farming industrials pout into the soil, eco systems are changing Ina rapid pace here, leaving the native wildlife seeking for other places to live.
The parched cracked land cannot percolate water / rain water. We have to loosen the soil by making 6 feet x 6 feet shallow trenches or pools or pits per acre at least so that rain water as well as snow water can get collected in them several times during the rainy season . every rain , mild or heavy can fill them over and over again and that water will percolate . Then the surrounding soil also will become moist and absorb more water . Over the years ground water level will rise and water can be accessed at 8 - 10 feet !!
Wow, they really keep the news of a drought very low, I had no idea that Europe was suffering this till now, that would explain the food and energy shortages, even with Autumn comes, that doesn't mean that the rain would come with it, more in a drought, it continue trough Autumn till Winter, then people would have some relief, but it would totally obsolete because it would take a very long time to rebuilt the infrastructure and the supplies chains.
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U r doing great Europe, keep it up
This is it Bois, we're in the last stretch. It's now or never that we turn this around.
too late
@@alntr2872 It is too late but, it won't stop me from trying
You might want to check underground activity. Water sips through somewhere. Otherwise plant more trees to cultivate watersheds WORKS ALL THE TIME.
Money is not the solution for the problem. You already have that but did nothing.
Cuting emissions is one thing, building atmospheric water generators is something that need to happen very soon. I'm surprised that no one mention this solution.
I live in Spain and I saw big rivers drying very quick.
Atmosphere water generators powered by solar energy.
The reason for why no one has mentioned it is because desalination plants is the only thing you need. The ocean won't run out of water no matter how many people drink from it.
Air conditioning is usually needed when the sun is shining, i.e. when there is an excess of solar energy, or has Spain not reached that amount of solar power yet?
duh
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The way this works (the desert zone) involves "latent heat of evaporation-condensation" which is much energy equalling for 1 kg water the same as heating 10 kg water by 60 degrees (and some latent heat of fusion-freezing also). Air rises wet from the ocean around the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) just north of equator in May-August and cools by say 90 degrees while rising 15 km which condenses the H2O gas and the water rains back down there. It would have cooled by say 135 degrees but all that latent heat of condensation & freezing held back 45 degrees of cooling. As it heads north at 15 km up the Coriolis Effect turns it hard right so it's stopped there and descends and gets heated by pressure as it descends, but it's bone dry because its H2O fell out when it rose, so it heats by maybe 135 degrees as it descends by 15 km so it's now 45 degrees warmer than the warm tropics where it rose due to "latent heat of evaporation-condensation" cooling the tropics where it rose and putting its heat into the air. My example is an exaggeration because it's also radiating heat to space but it does carry several extra degrees of heat north in the air due to water latent heat. So that causes the Sahara Desert and also it's dry air descending which means no cloud so the summer Sun is blazing. The Mediterranean Sea is too deep to be dried to desert but southern Europe is destined to gradually become in the desert zone of dry descending air from ITCZ that I just described. It's inevitable as the global warming relentlessly progresses due to the +CO2.
Perma frost melting releasing methane from decaying ice age organic matter is what's really heating the globe up so fast
Shifting of magnetic poles??
Surely All they need is electric cars. Don't they get it ?
Yet, the very people telling us to lower OUR emissions are the biggest culprits. Now they want to block out the sun 🤦♂️. Who comes up with this whacky stuff? Can we just throw all the greedy people into volcanoes? Stop all the deforestation and private jet emissions probably nets us another 1,000 years before we become a subterranean mole people.
Mate I know you think you're highly intelligent by writing a 1000 word essay but it's the Chinese toys that are causing the problem which people like you can't seem to do without
Here in belize lots of rain and water
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
"This all seems like it's a cycle that comes and goes" There ARE natural cycles of wetter and dryer periods, but humans have disrupted those natural cycles and amplified droughts by warming the planet by 2 degrees F. THAT is the problem: Man-made global warming makes the Earth drier and less able to support life.
Excellent reporting as always
In Australia 🇦🇺 for the last few years we are having too much rainfall and most likely the same next year.
In india also rain is heavy
Same in Southeast USA
We have had rain and 12 - 15 degrees celcius most of the summer...
Even if the sea temp rises
It would kill off many of the seas life forms they can't take the elevated temp
I suspect that deforestation in the Amazon, Pantanal and Atlantic Forest that occurred since 2019 in Brazil has been significant enough to cause climate change in many regions of the world.
this is a divine punishment for what Europe is doing
Some scientific proof would make your suspicions more credible
@@tsugumorihoney2288 You are an inconsequential being
@@ArtStoneUS It ll be soon
@@ArtStoneUS In just 2 years a huge part - 40%+ (almost half) of the biome located in the Midwest region of Brazil called Pantanal was decimated. In the following year, the dry period that occurs in winter reached an extension never before occurred, reaching Argentina and Paraguay in addition to extensive areas of Brazil.
Kind of glad I’m visiting the Alps this weekend
Me too 🎿 ski trip booked my ticket 🎟🤪
Troubling conditions but helpful for archaeologists I presume….
Note that the buildings and bridges are where the water levels were prior to made made dams and weirs were put in. The bridges and the towns are where the long term levels were and are.
Many countries in Europe are facing serious fires and drought France, Spain, Italy, Lebanon, Greece, Portugal, UK...
Yes Lebanon is in Europe 😏🍕
@@soleiltounsi6754 Huh? Yh it's in Europe, what's up?
@@bcvxx8688 nope its in asia 😹😹
@@Entergalactic Loooool seriously get educated 🤣🤣🤣🤣. It's IN Europe.
Hotter summers, drier winters , the odd pandemic , the constant treat of a nuclear war , fuel crises , ripping inflation , famine , all seems pretty normal to me .
BIBLE TELLS ABOUT THIS!
GOD IS IN POWER.
@@bennyguardian3225 lmfao
O ur nuts
How the constructions were under water ? Does that mean what is at its original level ?
Watching this right after the story about Paris in a flash flood with snow yesterday.
The fact a medieval bridge is now visible means the river was far lower in those times.
Probably there was no dam back in those medieval times
@@fenrirgg very true. No doubt we have worsened these cyclical fluctuations.
Problem is the population then was only 5-8 million while the population today is 48 million with people expecting much better standard of living and longer, healthier lifetimes..
Yet there was more water in the high mountains, more ice somehow. More ice in the icecaps and way les people around.
Along with the population. I definitely don't want to live in a world where even developed countries are forced back to their medieval poppulation levels. Nothing fun about being a European serf in an arid landscape.
So very sorry Europe that you're facing this! I hope the world can unite and help each other.
Sorry slightly idealistic. When has the world united before.
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can you imagine what is happening in africa asia india....100 times worse
Irrigating farms now will depend more on fuel for water pumps to work which will increase the energy crisis and food prices might get more higher. some crops like rice would be unwise choice for farmers and it will be a matter of import and export spike in trade
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Europe is soo big! Here in my country its raining always and water is not a problem at all
Earth is teaching us something important in a uncomfortable way.
Not to trust governments to solve problems?
I never imagined whole rivers drying up, in Europe of all places. 😬
Worldwide event!!!
It's about a time
Europe is on the same Earth as other continents so that is a bit ignorant of you...
@@Moratuoa12 yep
@@annking1576 Not really, lots of Asian countries are experiencing more rainfall.
In Australia, we put out water for birds it's so sad watching how the heat effects them in the city there is not a abundance of trees
Drought is a big problem
The situation with the Rhine river has been much worse in the summer 20 years ago with water levels that did not allow any transportation at all for several weeks.
News flash. Twenty years ago global warming was already rearing its head.
Remember the summer of 2003? That was an early warning.
It used to be a lot worse hundreds of years ago during the little ice age when crops failed across Europe due to the cold leading to regular famines.
In Norway we got lot of cold rain almost every day this summer. Really hope for some sunny days before our icing cold dark wintertime.
Here in Hungary where I live we have temperatures around 35/40 degrees C and no rainfall in the last 9 weeks. Let's trade some sun with cold rain.
yea give some of that rain to us germans as well and you can have the dry heat.
I’m wondering where the water when to.
4:46 thought i read “drought balls deep” 😂
Thoughts and prayers for the wildlife.
i agree,,,sad for the diversity of creatures,,,so sad for the animals...as for humans we will get the full punishment we deserve
Rick Ricky. Well said! We humans stand accountable for so many atrocities. Twenty years ago I saw the BRONZE statue of a MAN outside the entrance to London zoo, the plaque at the bottom read; you are looking at the filthiest creature on earth! The plight of animals worldwide is heartbreaking. Greetings from 🇳🇿🤗