As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the ongoing and long period of drought that has affected Croatia and the rest of Europe this summer has started to leave serious consequences on agricultural crops and other forms of greenery, and the pictures of dried up, baked sunflowers and corn from the fields of Slavonia and Baranja show that we’re yet to feel the most serious consequences of this damage.
Fortunately, unlike some other European countries which quite remarkably includes the United Kingdom, famous for its rain and green land, Croatia doesn’t yet have a problem with water supply, but due to low water levels in the rivers, restrictions on river traffic were introduced for safety reasons.
Croatian water levels are now at the lowest they’ve been over the last ten years, but the Sava River is still 40 centimetres higher (-298 cm) below the historic lowest levels in history (-338 cm) from back in 1993.
The small lake in Zagreb’s popular Bundek park has almost completely dried up, and the last time such scenes were seen exactly ten years ago at the height of yet another long period of harsh drought, which lasted for as long as seventeen months.
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