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Rhine River Water Levels Drop to Historic Lows

Rank
Ran: 16h
Updated: 4d ago
Closed
Outlets: 3
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 3

ČT24 Czechia · Czech 30 Sept, 20:22 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Indonesia (1) · +1 language

Read at ČT24

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: ČT24, 30 Sept, 20:22 UTC.
Second country: Poland, with TVN24.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Detik.
Last article: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

33%67%

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%
Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 67%

First movers

ČT24 30 Sept, 20:22 UTC
TVN24 +9h 19m
Detik +16h 38m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Rhine River hits record low water level in drought, 27 to 29 Sept 2026, 7 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 3 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 3 outlets, 1 public-service, 2 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 1: Indonesia. Europe 2: Czechia, Poland. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Czech, Indonesian, Polish.
Timeline: Earliest article ČT24, 30 Sept 2026, 20:22 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 20:30 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 13:00 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues Rhine River hits record low water level in drought. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 20:30 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 13:00 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 3 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Detik Indonesia 1 Oct, 13:00 UTC
Sungai Rhine Mengering, Permukaan Air Capai Titik Terendah dalam Sejarah

Europe 2 outlets

TVN24 Poland 1 Oct, 05:41 UTC
Poziom wody spadł, firmy zanotowały milionowe straty
ČT24 Czechia 30 Sept, 20:22 UTC
Rýn se nadále potýká s nedostatkem vody, u městečka Kaub je hladina na minimu