{
  "id": 125847,
  "title": "Record drought and heatwave bring energy emergency to Eastern Europe",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/record-drought-and-heatwave-bring-energy-emergency-to-eastern-europe",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-04T10:49:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/record-drought-and-heatwave-bring-energy-emergency-to-eastern-europe"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Numerous governments across Central and Eastern Europe are taking steps to conserve electricity and avert an energy crisis amid record low water levels on the Danube River. In Hungary, the country's only nuclear plant provides electricity for half the country - but is now being shut down as there is not enough water to cool its reactors down.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "BBC News",
        "title": "Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe's rivers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/rhine-falls-to-record-low-levels-as-drought-strains-europes-rivers-92218",
        "published": "2026-08-03T16:27:43.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Euronews",
        "title": "Europe’s hydropower nears ‘all-time-low’ as summer drought worsens. Is gas the only backup?",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/europes-hydropower-nears-all-time-low-as-summer-drought-worsens-is",
        "published": "2026-08-04T11:01:08.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "NPR",
        "title": "Europe heat wave fuels drought, fires and energy fears",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/europe-heat-wave-fuels-drought-fires-and-energy-fears",
        "published": "2026-08-04T16:37:38.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}