Shrinking Po, Loire, Rhine and Danube expose scale of Europe’s deepening water crisis

Water levels on the Danube river are so low that the hulks of Nazi battleships are emerging, and power plants are being pushed to the brink of shutting down.

Water levels on the Danube River, the second longest in Europe, have dropped so low due to drought and extreme heat over the summer that the hulls of dozens of German warships…