King Mohamed VI of Morocco. King Mohamed VI has spent the past week in his second house in Betz, a town of about 1,000 residents in the department of Oise to the north east of Paris. So desperate for water, in fact, that they've helped drain the local water pumps dry. As a result, the locals have been asked to stop drinking the tap water as village's consummation of water has exceeded its production. The mayor of the neighbouring town told local media that water was "becoming increasingly scarce" and that water shortages were becoming all the more common.

Source: The Local August 31, 2016 07:07 UTC