‘God, give us rain’ — Romanian monastery prays for end to drought as temperatures have spiked above 40 Celsius in the country this week and the drought has left hundreds of Romanian villages with rationed water.
Temperatures have spiked above 40 Celsius in the country this week and the drought has left hundreds of Romanian villages with rationed water. Crops are being decimated in the country which is an exporter of grains.
“We have children, we have cattle. We make an effort to plant tomatoes in the garden and they dry out and we have nothing to eat. God, give us rain, don’t abandon us.” Romania’s weather agency issued temperature warnings for Sunday, adding torrential storms would follow, although it said temperatures would remain abnormally high. Water levels on the river Danube were three times lower than usual.
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