The Vistula, Poland’s longest river, fell to a record low in the capital on Sunday due to drought, according to the national weather agency .
According to the IMGW weather institute, the level at one Warsaw monitoring station dropped to 25 centimetres (10 inches), breaking the previous record by a centimetre.
“It’s worse than in 2015 — and the water continues to fall!” the institute added on X, formerly Twitter.
Most of Poland’s rivers are suffering from drought, IMGW hydrologist Grzegorz Walijewski told AFP last week.
“We’ve been dealing with hydrological drought in Poland for a while. Since 2015 there’s been permanent drought,” he said.
He said climate change was to blame, as milder winters with less snow alongside fewer days of rain and higher temperatures push down water levels.
The Vistula, which is the EU member’s longest river at more than 1,000 kilometres (621 miles), splits the country in half and deposits in the Baltic Sea.
( Source: AFP)
