The Hoover Dam was an engineering feat- a Depression-era accomplishment that harnessed the Colorado River and gave rise to cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. But the success of the ...

In New Hampshire and across our country, dams provide essential services, including flood control, drinking water, renewable energy, and irrigation. For the safety of our communities, to help combat ...

Changes planned for Linn County’s Pinicon Ridge Park dam aim to turn it into a place where people and aquatic wildlife can live and play safer. Last month, the county conservation board awarded a $3.4 ...

Five years after the World Commission on Dams gave key recommendations on how dams could be built with minimum social and evironmental costs, WWF reports that governments, financiers and dam builders ...

A $1.2 billion project to rebuild the largest dam in Santa Clara County to reduce the risk of it failing in a major earthquake has finally begun to make significant visible progress, as construction ...

Work continues to remove the Bel Air Dam in Pittsfield. NewsChannel 13’ s media partners at The Berkshire Eagle shared photos of construction teams and large equipment are there to clear the area. As ...

Ethiopians have celebrated the inauguration of Africa's largest dam as a defining moment in the country's history, even as downstream states warn of "grave consequences" without guarantees on how ...