Bloomberg: drought and shallow rivers will exacerbate the energy crisis in Europe

Writes about this agency Bloomberg.

The authors of the material predicted that, due to the heat, the Rhine will continue to dry up at the beginning of next week.

This, the article notes, will lead to the restriction of the supply of vital goods to some parts of the EU that are delivered along this route.

The climate crisis came at the worst possible time, with Europe plunged into an energy crisis exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine.

Observers conceded that the record drought and its consequences could lead to a significant increase in the cost of living in the EU countries.

Earlier it was reported that Belgium faced the worst drought since 1885, in July the kingdom received less than 8% of the monthly rainfall.

As reported by The Guardian newspaper, the sources of the British Thames for the first time in history dried up as a result of a drought due to abnormal heat.