More than 2,000 large dams have been built and more than 200 are currently under construction or planned in sub-Saharan Africa. The general aim is to enhance food security, increase hydropower ...

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As relentless storms drench river basins and fill reservoirs, one major dam is now pressing up against its design limits, forcing engineers and emergency managers to weigh hard choices in real time.

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This article is published in partnership with: The largest dam removal in United States history is set to take place along the Klamath River by 2023, but getting to this point was neither easy nor ...

It is a telling illustration of the precarious state of United States dams that the near-collapse in February 2017 of Oroville Dam, the nation’s tallest, occurred in California, considered one of the ...

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