Daily Memo: Receding Danube Levels, Negotiations With Iran

The river's record-low levels have affected power plants in both Romania and Hungary.

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Energy crisis. Romania has declared a state of emergency for the entire month of August due to declining electricity generation caused by record-low water levels in the Danube. One of the country’s nuclear reactors has shut down, and authorities have allocated funds to divert the river’s flow to maintain operations at the second reactor. Romania […]

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