In part, then, he has admitted that the previous government, in which he served as minister for construction and transport, bears responsibility for today’s water and energy crisis by failing to act. Warnings over water and energy crisis for yearsResearchers warned years ago that the intensity and frequency of extreme rainfall events were increasing. But as rainfall becomes ever more erratic, life-giving water now leaves the basin too quickly, leaving behind dry, increasingly desert-like terrain. We wrote separately last year about a future Hungarian desert that could affect the lives of several hundred thousand people. Water shortage means a brutal reality, and I can only say that there is no real decision on what we actually want.”