WUC, Botswana’s state-owned water and wastewater utility, has opened a tender for a feasibility study on deploying floating solar plants at its dams. According to the tender announcement ...

Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has assured communities living downstream of the Seven Forks Dams that ...

and hydroelectric dams. Photograph by James Kydd Water from the Okavango River is used to irrigate fields as it flows through Namibia’s narrow Caprivi Strip toward Botswana. Namibia plans to ...

into Botswana. None of the economic benefits of this will be much comfort to the residents of Ha Ramokoatsi. Despite being ...

Botswana is a very dry country but there are places where there ... Tens of thousands of people were forcibly moved from their homes to make way for the Kariba Dam almost 60 years ago. A new ...

The collapsed dam in Laos caused massive flooding in the Mekong Delta The collapse of a newly built dam in Laos has shone a spotlight on a worldwide construction boom. Many thousands of hydropower ...

A new report shows Wisconsin is seeing dam failures more frequently, in another sign that the state is seeing stronger storms ...

The prospect of extreme water scarcity makes South Africa vulnerable to climate change-induced crises which could trigger ...

"In the years to come, state and local leaders face difficult choices about where to invest in maintaining and improving dams," a new report said.

A dam burst in Altai, Russia, during scheduled maintenance work, reports the local emergency management department's Telegram ...

The average U.S. dam is 60 years old, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers, even though dams typically “are designed and built for a 50-year period,” Kiernan said.