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Green News

Why are tropical fruit farmers being arrested in Spain?

Farmers are turning to desperate measures in drought-hit Spain, which just had its warmest April on record.

World News

Villages in Spain face drinking water shortage amid persistant drought

Local residents in villages to the north of Cordoba are receiving water deliveries by truck after record temperatures and drought caused a drinking water basin to dry up.

Europe News

EU wastewater directive makes way through Parliament but at what cost?

The new law will mean greater investments in new technologies, as well as industries that contaminate wastewater having to pay-to-pollute.

Travel News

‘Terrifying’: Travel blogger gets stuck in Sudan after violence breaks

Maheen S was travelling around Africa when fighting suddenly broke out in Sudan.

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Climate

French farmer gives tearful interview as drought threatens crops

A giant reservoir in Sainte-Soline has become a flashpoint in France’s debate over water resources.

Climate

How rising sea levels are affecting India's water supplies

People can no longer depend on ponds and wells for the water they need to drink, cook and wash.

Climate

This Mediterranean country is cutting off overnight water supplies

Water is being cut for seven hours every night in response to the worst drought on record.

Green News

Water shortages could become a 'global crisis'

On World Water Day, the United Nations says hundreds of millions of children are at risk from inadequate or unsafe drinking water

Living

These transformation stories show how water is a women's issue

Women are disproportionately affected by water scarcity, but ‘clean water gives women a chance to make their dreams a reality’.

Scenes

Meet the Venezuelan engineers pumping clean water for villagers

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Our idea is to attack the existing problems of drinking water consumption and provide solutions to the communities.

Ukraine

Anelise Borges reports on the blackouts in Ukraine for Euronews

Most Ukrainians were left without power on Wednesday night after a new wave of Russian strikes on the country's critical infrastructure. Euronews International Correspondent Anelise Borges was in the Ukrainian cities of Odesa and Kherson as residents battle on without water or electricity.

World News

Spain’s Doñana wetlands are drying up

Europe's most important wetland is suffocating due to lack of water. The last freshwater lagoon in theSpanish national park of Doñana has dried up.

Living

‘We can’t eat lithium’: South Americans strike back at mining industry

Lithium extraction requires vast amounts of water, and is jeopardising people's lives and livelihoods in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.

Eco-Innovation

Meet the teenagers with bold ideas for cleaning up the planet

An app to detect crop disease and a fish scale formula to clean wastewater are among the contenders for the Children's Climate Prize.

Climate

Why mob bosses should be worried about the evaporation of this US lake

As climate change dries up the US’s largest reservoir, a darker history is being uncovered.

Climate

Why are French activists filling golf course holes with cement?

As France faces severe drought, the country's golf courses are escaping water bans. Now, protestors are taking action.

Europe News

Desperate for water: European drought crisis in pictures

France, Italy, Spain, Serbia, Hungary and beyond -- this selection of photographs shows the European countries struggling with the shortage of water.

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France drought: Loire river so low it can be crossed on foot

With an early heatwave in June and an unusually hot and dry month of May, the bed of the Loire has reached a lower level than usual, so much so that the river can be crossed on foot in certain places.

World News

How is Europe tackling unprecedented water shortages?

Countries across Europe are taking emergency measures as water levels hit new lows and temperatures continue to soar.

Europe News

France and parts of England experience driest July on record

The low rainfall in both countries has been coupled with a summer of unprecedentedly high temperatures, which topped 40 degrees Celsius in England in July for the first time ever.