4900 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.sundaymail.co.zw/new-drought-hit-europe-sees-impacts-on-peoples-livelihoodsVIEWED from the sky, the Afsluitdijk is like a long wall running 32 kilometres straight through the sea, defending Lake IJssel, the largest freshwater lake in the Netherlands, from the intrusion of seawater. With a long drought this summer, the iconic Dutch flood control project, consisting of a....2022-08-19T13:12+0200sundaymail-aa4acf285cd3333051935592f450c78620220819131200https://kpl.gov.la/En/Detail.aspx?id=68388Photo taken on Aug. 15, 2022 shows dried soil on a section of the Afsluitdijk, a dam separating the IJsselmeer lake and the Wadden Sea, in the Netherlands. (Xinhua/Wang Xiangjiang) The European Commission said in its Drought in Europe report in July that while drought mitigation strategies are of....2022-08-19T13:10+0200kpl-a11ddd0ce443ea154c7bd2f7e20d9ed620220819131000https://digitpatrox.com/drought-in-europe-rainfall-will-not-affect-low-water-levels-in-germany%e2%80%b2s-rivers-news-dw/On the identical time, the DWD needed to difficulty a flash flood warning for areas across the Danube river in southern Germany, which was anticipated to be hit with heavy rain and thunderstorms on Friday. Areas parched by drought undergo from elevated chance of flash floods due to the soil’s incapability to soak up water shortly.2022-08-19T03:04+0200digitpatrox-f5b773666b5ee2e492822250e025c8e020220819030400https://www.dw.com/en/drought-in-europe-rainfall-will-not-affect-low-water-levels-in-germanys-rivers/a-62852500At the same time, the DWD had to issue a flash flood warning for areas around the Danube river in southern Germany, which was expected to be hit with heavy rain and thunderstorms on Friday. Areas parched by drought suffer from increased likelihood of flash floods due to the soil's inability to absorb water quickly.2022-08-18T16:38+0200deutschewelle-en-62feb8f88162bec6fb0a245972f5b2d820220818163800