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Water levels have dropped in major rivers across Europe as the region suffers under a historic drought. In those dry riverbeds, centuries-old warning messages have emerged, locals report. The “horrifying” boulders are known as “Hungersteine,” or “Hunger Stones,”


The stone, dating back to a drought in 1616, is once again visible in the dry riverbed, Hernández-Morales said. The warning reads, “Wenn du mich seehst, dann weine” – “If you see me, weep.” “Hunger stones” like this one were used as “hydrological landmarks” across central Europe, NPR reported when the stones last surfaced during a 2018 drought. These stones are “chiselled with the years of hardship and the initials of authors lost to history,” a team of Czech researchers wrote in a 2013 study. “The basic inscriptions warn of the consequences of drought. It expressed that drought had brought a bad harvest, lack of food, high prices and hunger for poor people.” The stones commemorate historic droughts, the researchers said.
 
Just got my coffee and watching the news. They had an apple farmer in England on whose apples were literally baking on the trees.

They've started issuing water bans now the drought has gotten so bad.

This is on my local news. Not a peep on the so-called world news programs.
 
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Time to get the original deal out...compare it to the water at the time and amounts parsed to each stakeholder and then convert all volume calculations to a percentage based system from the original numbers...
 
Time to get the original deal out...compare it to the water at the time and amounts parsed to each stakeholder and then convert all volume calculations to a percentage based system from the original numbers...
That's the problem: there are so many deals going back to the 19th century that there is actually more water given out to those states than actually ever existed.

And they're all fighting for it.

It's like Delta - they sell more tickets than they have seats on the plane. Then when people start getting bumped to the next flight, nobody wants to be the one that gets bumped. They're all fighting for seats that don't exist.
 
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