Drought has caused water levels in Poland's longest river to drop to record low

Drought has caused water levels in Poland's longest river to drop to record low

Warsaw, Poland:

Poland's longest river, the Vistula, reached record lows in the capital on Sunday due to drought, the National Meteorological Agency said.

At one Warsaw measuring station, the level fell to 25 centimeters (10 inches), exceeding the previous record by one centimeter, according to the IMGW meteorological institute.

“The situation is worse than in 2015, and the water continues to fall!” the institute added on its X (formerly Twitter) page.

IMGW hydrologist Grzegorz Waliewski told AFP last week that most of Poland's rivers were suffering from drought.

“We have been dealing with hydrological drought in Poland for some time now. There has been a constant drought there since 2015,” he said.

Climate change is to blame, he said, as milder winters with less snow, fewer rainy days and higher temperatures lead to lower water levels.

The Vistula, the longest river in an EU member state (over 1,000 kilometres (621 miles)), divides the country in half and flows into the Baltic Sea.

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