The Rhine normally supplies water in the area of the water board. But the water level of that river is currently very low and, moreover, it is sinking further. Rijkswaterstaat expects the discharge at Lobith, the border town where the Rhine flows into the Netherlands, will drop to a water level that hardly ever occurs in the summer. “Thursday’s rain was welcome, but it didn’t dispel the drought,” HDSR said.
Water board installs emergency pumps, necessary for fruit cultivation, among other things
