‘Monster’ wildfire incinerates French wine country: France desperately sends in reinforcement firefighters as ten thousand flee, while record drought helps kill tons of fish in Germany amid summer ‘extremes not seen before’

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  More than 100 communes in France have seen their taps run completely dry amid dangerous water shortage
• Fleets of vans are ferrying bottled water to desperate communities in the ‘historic’ drought 
• France is also tackling eight active wildfires that have scorched thousands of hectares in the hellish scenes 

By JACK NEWMAN FOR MAILONLINE

France is gasping from a dire water shortage with hundreds of towns and villages left with no tap water as ‘ogre’ wildfires rip across the country for the second time this summer in a ‘vision of hell’.

The entire nation is suffering its worst drought on record with restrictions in place to limit water usage, but for more than 100 parched communes, they don’t even have the option to ration their supply.

French environment minister Christophe Béchu said it is a ‘historic’ crisis for so many communities to have no tap water at all, as fleets of vans ferry bottled water to the desperate residents.

Exacerbating the crisis, fires are razing down thousands of hectares of land across four different departments, causing havoc to agriculture and vineyards.  

The suffocating heat with no water relief is a story reflected across Europe, with Spain, Italy, Portugal and Germany also under emergency measures.

Water levels on the Rhine are critically low, causing a huge logjam for essential cargo deliveries of oil and coal to Dutch ports which could further worsen the continent’s energy crisis.

In a river between Poland and Germany, five tonnes of dead fish have been hauled out of the water due to the low water levels combined with toxic chemicals.

Italy’s Po River is at its lowest in history while Spain is also battling wildfires and a drought that has left one reservoir 87 per cent empty.

The head of the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher, said rising land temperatures and shrinking rivers as measured from space are a certain sign of climate change, saying: ‘It’s pretty bad. We have seen extremes that have not been observed before.’ 

Here, MailOnline takes a look at how the furnace-like conditions have caused perishing droughts and catastrophic fires across the continent…….More Here

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