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Video. Rhine River hits record low as drought grips Germany

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What to know about Video. Rhine River hits record low as drought grips Germany

Water levels on the Rhine hit a historic low on Saturday, with the gauge in Cologne measuring 68 centimeters, one centimeter below the previous record set in October 2018, according to the Rhine Waterways and Shipping Authority.

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What happened

Water levels on the Rhine hit a historic low on Saturday, with the gauge in Cologne measuring 68 centimeters, one centimeter below the previous record set in October 2018, according to the Rhine Waterways and Shipping Authority.

Why it matters

Footage from Cologne's Rheinauhafen marina showed boats stranded in the shallow water as residents walked and cycled along the dry riverbank, some stopping to take photos.

Common ground

Germany's major waterways, including the Elbe and Danube, are also running low.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “according to the Rhine Waterways and Shipping Authority”
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Multiple sources attribute the measurements to the 'German Waterways and Shipping Administration' or the 'Rhine Waterways and Shipping Authority', which are the same entity.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A shipping line or shipping company is a company whose line of business is ownership and operation of ships. Shipping companies provide a method of distinguishing ships by different kinds of cargo: B…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The modern terms short-sea shipping (sometimes unhyphenated), marine highway and motorways of the sea, as well as the more historical terms coastal trade, coastal shipping, coasting trade and coastwis…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Wasserverband Westdeutsche Kanäle (WWK) is a German statutory body for the adjustment of the Lippe water level and service water supply from the West German shipping canals and artificial watercou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserverband_Westdeutsche_Kan…
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Claim 2: “Germany's major waterways, including the Elbe and Danube, are also running low”
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Web search results explicitly state that low water levels in the Rhine, Danube, and Po have curtailed transport, confirming that the Danube and other major waterways are also running low.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The rivers listed here are either entirely or partially located in Germany, or form the country's international borders. The rivers of Germany flow into either the Baltic Sea (Ostsee), the Black Sea o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Germany
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Czechoslovak Naval Forces (Československé válečné loďstvo) were the naval arm of the former Czechoslovak state. Due to Czechoslovakia being landlocked and with no large rivers flowing through it (…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Danube–Oder Canal (German: Donau-Oder-Kanal; Polish: Kanał Odra-Dunaj; Czech: Kanál Odra-Dunaj) was a planned, partially constructed, and in 2023 definitely cancelled artificial waterway in the Lo…
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Claim 3: “Water levels on the Rhine hit a historic low on Saturday, with the gauge in Cologne measuring 68 centimeters”
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Three independent web search results explicitly state that the water level at the Cologne gauge measured 68 centimeters on a Saturday morning, marking a historic low.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the 2015–2016 celebrations of New Year's Eve in several German cities, a large number of sexual assaults occurred. Approximately 1,200 women were reported to have been sexually assaulted, espec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The List of regional rail lines in North Rhine-Westphalia provides a list of all Regional-Express and Regionalbahn railway lines in North Rhine-Westphalia. The passenger rail service in North Rhine-We…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Middle Rhine (German: Mittelrhein, pronounced [ˈmɪtl̩ˌʁaɪn] ; kilometres 529 to 660 of the Rhine) is the section of the Rhine between Bingen and Bonn in Germany. It flows through the Rhine Gorge (Ober…
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Claim 4: “one centimeter below the previous record set in October 2018”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that the previous record low was 69 centimeters, set on October 23, 2018, making the current 68cm reading one centimeter lower.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cologne ( kə-LOHN; German: Köln [kœln] ; Kölsch: Kölle [ˈkœ̂lə] ) is the fourth-most populous city of Germany and the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with nearly 1.1 millio…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen [ˌnɔɐtʁaɪn vɛstˈfaːlən] ), commonly shortened to NRW, is a landlocked state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 m…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region (German: Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr) is the largest metropolitan region in Germany, with over ten million inhabitants. A polycentric conurbation with several major ur…
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