China News Service, August 11. According to the British Sky News Network, recently, Andrea Toreti, a researcher at the European Commission's Joint Research Center in charge of collecting data for the European Drought Observatory, warned that Europe may experience the worst situation in about 500 years. severe drought.
Data map: On July 22, 2019 local time, under the influence of continuous high temperature, the dry pond and land cracked in the Villars-les-Dombes region of France.
Andrea reportedly pointed out that "[Europe's] 2018 drought was so severe that, at least looking back at the past 500 years, nothing similar to the 2018 drought has occurred," while in its experience this year's drought "could be more extreme than 2018." ".
Data from the European Drought Observatory shows that in mid-to-late July this year, about 47% of the EU's land was in a "warning" state, and 17% of the land entered the most serious "alert" state.
It was previously reported that many European countries, including Germany, France and Spain, suffered severe droughts one after another due to the rare high temperature weather.
With the continuous aggravation of the disaster, the water-based energy utilization of various countries has also encountered difficulties one after another, making the European energy crisis even worse.