- A cruise ship carrying 186 tourists ran aground on the dried-up Danube River in Bulgaria, leading to the evacuation of passengers who had run out of food and water.
- The Danube has reached unprecedented low water levels, such as just 23 centimetres in Budapest, due to a prolonged drought and a renewed heatwave across Western and Central Europe.
- The critically low water levels are severely disrupting tourism, forcing cruise ships to dock far from cities, and halting cargo ship operations.
- Nuclear power plants in Romania and Hungary have been forced to shut down or power down reactors due to insufficient cooling water from the river.
- The receding waters have exposed previously submerged items, including old shipwrecks and a Second World War bomb near Budapest, while the situation is expected to worsen with continued high temperatures.
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