• Maybe you should read into it more, because what you said is blatantly wrong.

    The Paks power plant in Hungary takes water from the Danube, but due to the drought the water level dropped to a mere 23cm. The suction nozzles physically can’t reach enough water. It’s an intake problem, it’s not an issue with pumping it out again or storing it until the water cools.

    Here’s an article that mentions this: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0nqv05g0do

    The Soviet-era Paks power plant uses the Danube for cooling but the water level is so low that the suction nozzles cannot reach it.