Climate change, as your article says.

It also says that they want to use those new lakes as reservoirs to help out the situation.

So it will be rough for the area. It’s man-made though. That’s why I compared it to the Colorado basin situation around lake Lake Mead. Here is another article: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/spr...

If the water table was falling, that seems optimistic.

Each summer now the atomic plants in France have to shut down (or at least reduce their power) since the rivers don't have enough cooling water anymore. The same happened to a lesser extend in Germany --- lesser extend because we made the wise decision not use bet one atomic plants anymore.

In Germany, the river "Rhein" is in the summer so low on water that tanker ships with oil and diesel can't have to reduce what they carry. As a result, even with out the USA creating yet-again-trouble (this time in the Straits of Hormuz) gas prices at the filling stations are a higher.

The last time I made holiday in upper italy they had warnings that the area 20 km north of these seas (Lago maggiore, Lago di Como, Lago Di Lugano) have too little water and tourists were discouraged to go there.

People know that it won't snow as reliably anymore in the Alps as it used to do. But they see this only as a problem with skying. But it also rains less. The glaciers are reducing each year. Once they are completely gone, the european rivers fed by them will have even less water.

Areas like the Spree from that article aren't however influenced by the Alps. But there you also have less rain. In the center of Germany is the "Edersee". It provides electric power is a nice tourist destination ... and each summer it is intentionally emptied (almost). Because the main job of the sea is to provide enough water for the Weser (a river going to Bremen) so that commercial ships can operate there.