At this year's meeting of the Association of Limnologists in Austria (SIL-Austria) at the Biological Station Neusiedlersee in Illmitz, limnologists, geologists and hydrologists discussed the critical situation of Lake Neusiedl, which has lost a lot of its water this year. From 28 - 30 September 2022, participants of a panel discussion and of the scientific meeting explored the current lake situation and discussed "Steppe lakes under climatic change - past, present and future of Lake Neusiedl".