{"id":169493,"date":"2026-07-23T11:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friss-hirek.hu\/index.php\/lajos-racz-the-solution-to-the-water-crisis-is-the-antidote-to-the-decline-of-our-civilization\/friss-hirek\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:10:27","slug":"lajos-racz-the-solution-to-the-water-crisis-is-the-antidote-to-the-decline-of-our-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friss-hirek.hu\/index.php\/lajos-racz-the-solution-to-the-water-crisis-is-the-antidote-to-the-decline-of-our-civilization\/friss-hirek\/","title":{"rendered":"Lajos R\u00e1cz: The Solution to the Water Crisis Is the Antidote to the Decline of Our Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as \u201cwater regulation\u201d was the focus of the Reform Era, \u201cwater retention\u201d must be the focus of our time, according to environmental historian Lajos R\u00e1cz. In an article sent to V\u00e1lasz Online, the professor at the University of Szeged explains that, just as in the 1830s and 1840s, Hungarian society is currently under significant ecological pressure, which poses a risk not of rapid collapse but rather of slow decline. One of the main remedies is deep-floodplain water recharge in the Great Hungarian Plain, but \u201cin terms of scale and significance, this would likely rival the 19th-century railway construction projects.\u201d<\/p>