# Are the Danube’s low water levels solely due to climate change?

https://mins.news/en/video/13427

- TRT World, 2026-08-03 17:22 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52DOrvG8oD4

> Hungary has reduced production at its only nuclear power plant to 10 percent and is expected to shut the facility later this week. Record-low levels on the Danube are affecting several other countries as well. Rupert Read, co-founder of the Climate Majority Project, offers his view on whether climate change alone explains the situation.

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