{"id":22606,"date":"2026-07-01T07:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/42-degrees-celsius-no-tap-water-hungary-struggles-to-cope-amid-intense-heatwave\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:15:47","slug":"42-degrees-celsius-no-tap-water-hungary-struggles-to-cope-amid-intense-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/42-degrees-celsius-no-tap-water-hungary-struggles-to-cope-amid-intense-heatwave\/","title":{"rendered":"42 degrees Celsius, no tap water: Hungary struggles to cope amid intense heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a hilly village northwest of Budapest, siblings Andras and Blanka Arki have brought a bag of plastic containers and bottles to fill up at a roadside water cart in scorching 41C heat.<\/p>\n

Hungary on Tuesday hit a new temperature record, reaching 42C in Szecseny in northern Hungary<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

They are hoping to bring home clean water for the rest of their family.<\/p>\n

“It’s mainly to quench our thirst, and we have to give our animals water too,” Andras, a student, told AFP.<\/p>\n

“We have a dog, a cat, and about 10 chickens,” the 23-year-old said, adding that they have to make this trip three times a day.<\/p>\n

Like most inhabitants of the village of Szada, 25 kilometres northwest of Budapest, their home has been without tap water for almost two days.<\/p>\n

Rising demand has overwhelmed Hungary’s ageing water network as a record-breaking heatwave batters Europe.<\/p>\n

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Hungary on Tuesday hit a new temperature record, reaching 42C in Szecseny in northern Hungary, according to the national weather service, beating a previous record of 41.9C from 2007.<\/p>\n

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‘Never happened before’<\/h2>\n

Around three-quarters of the Szada’s 6,600 residents have faced water outages since Monday morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Services may only return on Wednesday, Endre Marton Laszlo, a local MP from the ruling Tisza party, told AFP, urging people “to use water sparingly” and to resist from “stockpiling water”.<\/p>\n

Another local, 25-year-old office worker Edina Fabian, said she and her partner are trying to conserve what they can gather from water carts.<\/p>\n

“We use as little as possible,” she said, standing at the locker room of a local sports field, which was turned into a temporary showering facility.<\/p>\n

She is looking forward for a refreshing shower after sweating for over a day.<\/p>\n

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“Our bedroom is hot, even with air conditioning we only managed to cool it to 27-28 degrees,” she said.<\/p>\n

Many residents feel frustrated how the water shortage is hindering their daily activities.<\/p>\n

“It’s quite an inconvenience that we can’t wash up, use the toilet, or do things like that,” said 53-year economist Claudio Pittia.<\/p>\n

In the past the village only would have only brief summer interruptions to the water supply to “one or two higher-lying streets”, according to mayor Lajos Pinter.<\/p>\n

“A water outage lasting more than half a day has never happened here before,” he told AFP.<\/p>\n

The regional waterworks set up four water carts around the village.<\/p>\n

The Hungarian army has also brought thousands of half-litre water sachets for volunteers to deliver to vulnerable people who cannot leave their homes.<\/p>\n

Dozens of places across Hungary have imposed restrictions on water use to pre-empt service outages.<\/p>\n

The problems affect many towns and villages in the Budapest metropolitan area situated close to the River Danube, whose levels are lower than usual.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Peter Magyar has repeatedly urged Hungarians to moderate their water consumption and postpone non-urgent use such as washing cars, warning that the ageing water network could otherwise collapse.<\/p>\n

In Szada, a Hungarian couple said they have extreme difficulty adjusting to the scorching heat and water outage, as they recently came from Norway for a family visit.<\/p>\n

“As outsiders, we also don’t understand why it could not be prevented,” Peter, a financial analyst who refused to give his full name told AFP.<\/p>\n

“If something is starting to run out, why do they had to wait instead of suspending service before the water was completely gone?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a hilly village northwest of Budapest, siblings Andras and Blanka Arki have brought a bag of plastic containers and bottles to fill up at a roadside water cart in scorching 41C heat. Hungary on Tuesday hit a new temperature record, reaching 42C in Szecseny in northern Hungary They are hoping to bring home clean…<\/p>\n

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