You've decided to tell the mayor to do nothing -- and the dam bursts! Now you have only one hour to evacuate the local residents before an 80-foot wall of dam water hits their city like a tidal wave.

You've advised the mayor to repair the cracking dam. In 1989, engineers in Austria used waterproof glue and built supporting buttresses to repair the cracking Kolnbrein Dam. Unfortunately ...

The construction of the Kariba Dam, a concrete arch dam across the Zambezi, kicked off in November 1956 and was completed in 1959, reports the Express. Inside idyllic city hailed 'world’s ...

Aaron Rigsby reports from South Carolina where a dam has failed amid severe flooding which continues to affect the area.

Covering 2,150 square miles, this is the world's largest artificial lake and reservoir by volume, filled over a span of five years .

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Spanning more than 100 metres across and 20 metres high, the Stones Arch Dam at Jones Falls has been standing strong for nearly two centuries. Also called the "whispering dam," visitors can stand ...

A huge dam in the Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine has been destroyed, unleashing a flood. Ukraine's military and Nato have accused Russia of blowing up the dam, while Russia has blamed ...

Satellite images shared with Newsweek show the construction progress made on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the controversial hydroelectric dam causing tension between three African ...

Charles City firefighters Lt. Justin Schuttler (left) and Landon Luft, dressed in their cold water gear, walk out onto the ...

These are important structures that help manage water resources. The earliest known dam was built in Jordan around 3,000 BC to provide irrigation for crops in the region. A dam is a large barrier ...

Andrew Van Dam writes the Department of Data column each week for The Washington Post. He has covered economics and wrangled data and graphics for The Post and the Wall Street Journal. He got his ...