A visitor explores a pipe that connects Vienna through a 90-meter long tunnel with the Klaeffer spring, near Gusswerk, Austria, on August 30, 2022. - The water system was set up almost a century and a half ago under the Austro-Hungarian Empire to provide the city with fresh water and to overcome diseases such as cholera.
As Europe suffers the worst drought in centuries, residents in Austria's capital have reason to be smug: freshwater springs fed from streams in the green forests of the Alps. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Blaise GAUQUELIN