Since 1950, the number of large dams has climbed from 5,000 to more than 45,000—an average construction rate of two large dams per day for half a century. Globally, 364 large water-transfer ...

Updated Oct. 15 at 1:29 p.m. A colossal dam is near completion on Ethiopia’s stretch of the Nile, a project so large that it promises to set the country on a path to industrialization that could ...

China’s longstanding restrictions on public access to information, debate and decision-making about large dam-construction projects have had fatal consequences in the past. An example was the ...

The Kakhovka dam, located upstream of the city of Kherson on the Dnipro river, collapsed in June 2023 following a suspected explosion. The extensive flooding along the lower Dnipro River that followed ...

It's now one 31 federal dams whose hydropower is marketed by BPA. The Bonneville Power Administration was born out of the New Deal, an era of large-scale public works projects that created ...