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Poland’s longest river, the Vistula, on Sunday hit a record-low water level in the capital because of drought, the national weather agency said.<\/p>\n
Its level at one Warsaw measuring station fell to 25 centimetres (10 inches), beating the last record by a centimetre, according to the IMGW weather institute.<\/p>\n
“It’s worse than in 2015 — and the water continues to fall!” the institute added on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n
Most of Poland’s rivers are suffering from drought, IMGW hydrologist Grzegorz Walijewski told AFP last week.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been dealing with hydrological drought in Poland for a while. Since 2015 there’s been permanent drought,” he said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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