The devastation comes as an ongoing heatwave in Romania has led to severe drought in some parts of the country, which has seen a number of lakes drying up and countless crops dying or being damaged.

Geamana’s 300 families then scattered throughout Romania. And work at the Rosia Poieni ... Note the runoff lake in the background, where the village once stood. The same lake, with the mine ...

In Romania, in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains, a village is disappearing every day, submerged by the waste from a nearby copper mine, opened in 1977.