Danube is losing water

In addition to the constant rise in water temperature, another major, seemingly invisible threat to European rivers is the overall shortage of water. Watercourses and the surrounding landscape are gradually drying up. Unfortunately, this threat also affects Europe's second-longest river, the Danube. You can learn more about this pressing issue, as well as other threats facing the Slovak section of the Danube, in an interview with Bořek Drozd, coordinator of the LIFE Living Rivers project (101069837/LIFE21-IPE-SK-Living Rivers) at the FFPW USB. The interview was published on July 25, 2025, in the Slovak daily newspaper Pravda. PDF version here a here.

Link to the online version: https://zurnal.pravda.sk/rozhovory/clanok/756410-v-dunaji-z-mizne-voda/