Romanian spa lake dries up

Valuable birds and fish on the Danube Delta have been lost after a massive lake in Romania that was once a famous spa resort popular for the Romanian elite under dictator Nicolai Ceausescu almost completely dried up. Lacul Nuntasi is located in south-eastern Romania’s Constanta county and is the latest victim of increasing extremes where the country is either flooded or experiences drought-like conditions. After Ceausescu was deposed, the lake was opened up to foreign tourists who flooded in from all over Europe to take advantage of the supposed healing properties of the mud found in the lake. However, the receding waterline has left that business in ruins and the huts and hotels that were once on the shoreline are now empty and derelict.