Europe’s Drying Rivers 2022

Some of the smaller rivers are dry, and the lost biological diversity does not return when it rains.

Squeezing a Sponge. Image — Wikimedia Commons by https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MickStephenson

Ongoing droughts over the past 5 years have depleted Europe’s rivers of their surface water sources, and also their underground water sources as the water tables have dropped and not been recharged.