The Danube has fallen to a historic low in Serbia, triggering a severe crisis in Vojvodina’s water management system, with the Danube–Tisza–Danube canal network — crucial to the region’s water supply and agriculture — now under threat of drying up. Danube-River Tisza channel may dry outA state of emergency was declared last week in several towns across Vojvodina, including Sombor, Kula and Vrbas. The water management system is facing one of the most serious hydrological situations of the past century, Dragan Glamočić, the agriculture, forestry and water management minister, said during a visit to the Danube pumping station at Bezdan. Historic water level lowsAccording to the company Vode Vojvodine, the pumping station at Bezdan, which supplies water to northern Bačka, stopped operating on 29 July. He added that operations at the pumping station in Grocka, near Belgrade, have also been temporarily suspended.