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However, the rainfall is not expected to offset Thames Waters warning to customers as thousands in the South East ran out of water just hours after swathes of England were made drought zones.

Poland has deployed soldiers to help clean up the Oder River, which runs along the border with Germany, after 10 tons of dead fish surfaced from the waterway in what one official described as an “ecological catastrophe.”

Thousands of dead fish have washed up along the banks of the Oder river bordering Germany and Poland in recent weeks. High levels of mercury have been detected in water samples taken from the river. An investigation is now underway to determine the cause of the ecological disaster.

BERLIN/WARSAW: Polish and German authorities are working flat out to establish the cause behind a mass fish die off in the river Oder, German Enviro...

The Oder flows north for hundreds of miles from the Oder Mountains of Czechia and empties into the Baltic Sea.

The Oder flows north for hundreds of miles from the Oder Mountains of Czechia and empties into the Baltic Sea.

The Oder flows north for hundreds of miles from the Oder Mountains of Czechia and empties into the Baltic Sea.

Europe isn’t alone in the crisis, with drought conditions also reported in East Africa, the western United States and northern Mexico.

Firefighters from across Europe struggled Thursday to contain a huge wildfire in France that has swept through a large swath of pine forest, while Germans and Poles faced a mass fish die-off in a river flowing between their countries.

More than 1,000 firefighters in France are struggling to contain a huge wildfire burning through pine forests. The fires come as Europe is suffering under a severe heat wave and drought. In Poland and Germany, low water levels and possible pollution have produced a mass die-off of fish in the Oder River, which runs between them.  In France, which is enduring its worst drought on record, flames raged through pine forests overnight, illuminating the sky with an intense orange light in the Gironde...