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

The Vaal Dam’s water levels have taken another hit, dropping by 2% over the past week. This comes as the Minister of Water and Sanitation Pemmy Majodina and the Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi ...

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 ...

This is in the moderate flooding zone. On November 5, the Van Buren Fire & Rescue alerted the public of sandbags available for residents there to help protect their property from the rising river ...

VAN BUREN, Mo. (KFVS) - The Current River crested a couple of feet below and sooner than what was anticipated in Van Buren. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Current River crested at 22 ...

But the message was still clear: "Un-dam the Klamath now!" That message became fact at the end of September when the final hunks of concrete were trucked away from the last of the four dams that ...

This is six feet above the major flooding threshold. The Van Buren Fire & Rescue have sandbags available for residents to help protect their property from the rising river levels. The sandbags ...

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%.

But incredibly, thanks to ancient Roman engineering which helped to direct the overflowing waters of the dam, the deluge was diverted down a hillside and away from the town of Almonacid de la Cuba.