Sept 2017 In civil engineering, quicksand is more than just a puddle of mud! The "quick condition" occurs when seepage ...

Five years after the Xayaburi dam in northern Laos began operations, the cost of Mekong hydropower is becoming ever more clear. A photo of the Mekong River at Luang Prabang, Laos, prior to the ...

A crew of biologist tag salmon and steelhead at the site where the Iron Gate dam used to stand (Credit: Damon Goodman) After being absent for more than a century, salmon have been spotted in ...

MANILA: Floodwaters hit hundreds of houses in the northern Philippines on Monday (Nov 18) after water released from a dam following Typhoon Man-yi caused a major river to break its banks.

Dams are not a new invention; they have been built for thousands of years to control water flow and generate hydroelectric power. These are important structures that help manage water resources.

The Federal Government has assured residents of Sokoto State and its environment of the safety and stability of both the Goronyo and Shagari dams. The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation ...

Dozens of blue and green dots are shown on the map. "The blue dots represent all the dams that have been removed around Valencia," reads text above the map. The post's caption reads: "Wow I wonder ...

A widely shared map shows existing river barriers in Valencia, not dams removed prior to deadly floods, contrary to social media posts about the cause of the natural disaster. “These are not ...

YREKA, Calif. – One of the first banners used by a coalition of tribes, environmentalists and other allies in a 20-year struggle to remove four dams from the Klamath River along the California ...

We compared these flows to what happened after big dams went in and more water was taken out for irrigation. Then, we modelled how climate change is likely to influence flows in future.

This photograph, taken on October 14 by Gab Ramotlwa of a section of the Vaal Dam, shows how much the water level had already dropped at that stage. The level has now already dropped to 34%.

The Ternivska Dam at the Kurakhove Reservoir in Ukraine’s Donetsk region was reportedly blown up on Monday, according to both Russian and Ukrainian sources. At least one Ukrainian channel wrote that ...