Water levels at Italy's Lake Garda are so low that it's possible to walk to an island in the middle. A swath of Europe is facing similar scenes.
A winter heatwave, record low levels of rain and a startling lack of snow in Europe are pushing rivers, canals and lakes across the continent to alarmingly low levels, with experts warning there could be repeat of last year’s severe droughts. Images of dried-up river beds and shrunken lakes are usually associated with the scorching heat of summer – not the winter.
Water levels at Lake Garda are so low that it is now possible to walk to an island in the middle, along a strip of exposed lake bed. A few months ago, this walkway did not exist. It is now also a lot harder to take a water taxi in Venice, as some of its canals have become too shallow to keep gondolas afloat, in part, because of a lack of rainfall. The city which has long feared flooding is now grappling with the opposite problem.
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