Published on 18/08/2026 – 7:54 GMT+2 • Updated

9:31

Water is being diverted into the Danube in Hungary and barges are being deliberately sunk in an effort to raise critically low river levels and prevent another shutdown at the country’s Paks Nuclear Power Plant.

Since noon on Monday, an additional 20 cubic metres of water per second has been released into the main Danube from the Ráckeve-Soroksár branch at Dömsöd, around 50 kilometres south of Budapest. The measure has raised the river level by about two centimetres.

Further downstream at Paks, about 100 kilometres south of the Hungarian capital, two barges are also being prepared for…

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