Desperate for water: European drought crisis in pictures

Europe is being hit by a climate-driven drought disaster, with 63% of land within the European Union and the UK being affected, the European Drought Observatory reviews.

Among the many international locations struggling: France, Spain, and Italy, with a few of their areas being critically affected.

Right here is how the drought disaster is altering the European panorama on this number of pictures.

A lifeless fish skeleton laying on the cracking earth of a dry lake mattress close to the village of Conoplja, 150 kilometers north-west of Belgrade, Serbia, August 9, 2022Darko Vojinovic/AP Photograph

A lifeless fish laying on the cracking earth of a dry lake mattress close to the village of Conoplja, 150 kilometers north-west of Belgrade, Serbia. August 9, 2022.Darko Vojinovic/AP Photograph

A view of a dry lake mattress close to the village of Conoplja, 150 kilometers north-west of Belgrade, Serbia. August 9, 2022Darko Vojinovic/AP Photograph

This aerial photograph exhibits houseboats sitting within the dry riverbed of the Waal river close to Beneden-Leeuwen within the Netherlands. August 10, 2022Rob Engelaar/AFP

Elisa Moretto walks on her dried rice subject, in Porto Tolle, Italy. July 29 2022Luca Bruno/AP Photograph

La Fernandina dam close to La Carolina, south-eastern Spain. Confronted with a historic drought and threatened by desertification, Spain is rethinking the way it makes use of its water sources.July 2022. Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP

The river Rhine is pictured with low water in Cologne, Germany. August 10, 2022Martin Meissner/AP Photograph

The dry mattress of Brenets Lake, a part of the Doubs River, a pure border between japanese France and western Switzerland, Les Brenets, Switzerland. August 4, 2022Fabrice Coffrini/AFP

This image taken by a drone exhibits the almost dried-up Halda fishing lake at Batonyterenye, northern Hungary. July 20, 2022Peter Komka/MTVA through AP Photograph

Folks take photographs on the southern tip of Margaret Island, which will be seen as a consequence of low water degree of the River Danube. in Budapest, Hungary. August 9, 2022.Anna Szilagyi/ AP Photograph

A person grabs a fish throughout rescue operation to save lots of fish, primarily pikes, from the low-quality water within the elements of Siarne river affected by drought, Saint-Fraigne. FranceAugust 10, 2022. Yohan Bonnet/AFP

Sunflowers undergo from lack of water, as Europe is beneath an unusually excessive warmth wave, in Beaumont du Gatinais, not removed from Paris, France. August 8, 2022.Aurelien Morissard/AP Photograph

A bike drives by way of the lavender fields of Valensole throughout a sizzling day in southern France. August 9, 2022.Daniel Cole/AP Photograph

Europe is being hit by a climate-driven drought disaster, with 63% of land within the European Union and the UK being affected, the European Drought Observatory reviews.

Among the many international locations struggling: France, Spain, and Italy, with a few of their areas being critically affected.

Right here is how the drought disaster is altering the European panorama on this number of pictures.

A lifeless fish skeleton laying on the cracking earth of a dry lake mattress close to the village of Conoplja, 150 kilometers north-west of Belgrade, Serbia, August 9, 2022Darko Vojinovic/AP Photograph

A lifeless fish laying on the cracking earth of a dry lake mattress close to the village of Conoplja, 150 kilometers north-west of Belgrade, Serbia. August 9, 2022.Darko Vojinovic/AP Photograph

A view of a dry lake mattress close to the village of Conoplja, 150 kilometers north-west of Belgrade, Serbia. August 9, 2022Darko Vojinovic/AP Photograph

This aerial photograph exhibits houseboats sitting within the dry riverbed of the Waal river close to Beneden-Leeuwen within the Netherlands. August 10, 2022Rob Engelaar/AFP

Elisa Moretto walks on her dried rice subject, in Porto Tolle, Italy. July 29 2022Luca Bruno/AP Photograph

La Fernandina dam close to La Carolina, south-eastern Spain. Confronted with a historic drought and threatened by desertification, Spain is rethinking the way it makes use of its water sources.July 2022. Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP

The river Rhine is pictured with low water in Cologne, Germany. August 10, 2022Martin Meissner/AP Photograph

The dry mattress of Brenets Lake, a part of the Doubs River, a pure border between japanese France and western Switzerland, Les Brenets, Switzerland. August 4, 2022Fabrice Coffrini/AFP

This image taken by a drone exhibits the almost dried-up Halda fishing lake at Batonyterenye, northern Hungary. July 20, 2022Peter Komka/MTVA through AP Photograph

Folks take photographs on the southern tip of Margaret Island, which will be seen as a consequence of low water degree of the River Danube. in Budapest, Hungary. August 9, 2022.Anna Szilagyi/ AP Photograph

A person grabs a fish throughout rescue operation to save lots of fish, primarily pikes, from the low-quality water within the elements of Siarne river affected by drought, Saint-Fraigne. FranceAugust 10, 2022. Yohan Bonnet/AFP

Sunflowers undergo from lack of water, as Europe is beneath an unusually excessive warmth wave, in Beaumont du Gatinais, not removed from Paris, France. August 8, 2022.Aurelien Morissard/AP Photograph

A bike drives by way of the lavender fields of Valensole throughout a sizzling day in southern France. August 9, 2022.Daniel Cole/AP Photograph