February 2017 saw one of the most serious dam-related engineering incidents in history with the failure of the service spillway at Oroville Dam. Whether they realized it or not, the people living ...

By embarking on building a super-dam, the largest ever conceived, in the seismically active Sino-Indian border region, China is potentially creating a ticking water bomb for millions of people ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Crews have successfully installed a temporary barrier at Longhorn Dam to prevent a further drop in water level at Lady Bird Lake after one of the dam’s gates failed Tuesday.

Instead of the older structure that was part rock and part concrete, the new dam will be entirely concrete — reportedly to increase its strength — and its spillway will be capable of managing ...

Just over 38 millimetres of rain on January 19 was enough to leave Lake Argyle's spillway overflowing. It is the earliest overflow point on the Water Corporation's records at the dam, which ...

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The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, which could affect nearby countries. By Tiffany May Isabelle Qian and ...

There are plans to build a magnificent, multi-billion dollar mega-dam on the Congo River - one that would produce enough renewable electricity to power vast areas of Africa. The structure would be ...

India is set to build its largest hydropower dam on the Siang River in Arunachal Pradesh to counter China's construction across the border. The 1.5-lakh crore project with a 9.2 billion cubic metre ...

A mega construction project to raise the Clanwilliam Dam walls by 13 metres has been delayed for years due to various challenges, including procurement and funding issues. It was originally ...

Despite local protests, India is building a giant hydro dam on the Siang River to counter a Chinese dam – the world’s largest – upstream in Tibet. Millions of people in India and Bangladesh ...

The proposed dam in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, known as Brahmaputra in India, is expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, about three times the ...