The occasional tourist in Venice must have felt a major anticlimax in the days since arriving at the tourist destination and finding many of the romantic city's iconic canals almost completely dry. 

The drought is due to low water levels, which has meant that most mud is visible under many of the bridges in the city, which otherwise usually have problems with flooding. 

But it's not just Venice that is experiencing low water levels - other parts of Italy are also affected. Environmental groups are now worried that the country will suffer another drought, after last July they suffered what is considered one of Italy's worst droughts in 70 years.

In the Alps, half the normal amount of snow has fallen during the winter, which has resulted in Italy's longest river, the Po, which runs from the Alps down to the Adriatic Sea, having 61 percent less water than normal at this time of year.

Source: svt.se