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 ...

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 ...

In a briefing at Riverlands near Malmesbury in the Western Cape, Minister of Water and Sanitation (DWS) Pemmy Majodina ...

In the 2019 budget, the government allocated N349.93m for the construction of Galma Dam, N134.63m for the construction of Jare Earth Dam, N250.03m for the construction of Ile-Ife Dam and N201.94m ...

Botswana, a country of 2.6 million people in southern Africa, is the second-biggest producer of natural diamonds behind Russia and has unearthed all of the world's biggest stones in recent years.

In the developed world there is really nothing natural about the way we get our water. Dams produce hydroelectric power and the reservoirs behind dams store water supplies for the long haul.

It has been noticed that natural waterfalls, however great, seldom produce any vibrations in their imme-iiate neighborhoods, while some artificial dams jarr the buildings in their vicinity for ...

The common practice of building dams to prevent flooding can actually contribute to more intense coastal flood events, according to a new study. By analyzing data and measurements from Charleston ...

The damaged Kakhovka dam as seen in a satellite image Ukraine has accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam in the Kherson region, in the south of the country. The Russian authorities have ...

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.

Workers breached the final dams on a key section of the Klamath River on Wednesday, clearing the way for salmon to swim ...

Hurricane Helene brought dams in North Carolina and Tennessee close to their breaking point. Many US dams are decades old and weren’t designed for the impacts of climate change. As flooding ...