FROM THE RIM of Lake Powell, you can’t see the danger line. There isn’t a flashing gauge or a chart on the canyon wall that warns visitors when one of the most important machines in America begins to ...

After years of planning, Santa Clara County’s largest dam is finally set to be torn down and rebuilt after water officials approved a $3.2 billion project to bring the aging 240-foot-tall structure up ...

In a major milestone after years of delays and cost increases, the Santa Clara Valley Water District has approved a construction contract to tear down and rebuild Anderson Dam, the largest dam in ...

In 1956, construction of Glen Canyon Dam began. The dam would generate hydropower, promote recreation and keep silt from filling up Lake Mead, but its main purpose was to create Lake Powell to serve ...

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It would be an engineering project on a truly epic scale, but we may one day need to consider building a dam between Alaska and eastern Russia. The audacious proposal would be designed to stave off ...

Federal workers have taken the first steps in a $32 million maintenance of the Blue Mesa Dam, the largest of three dams that were built in the 1960s to create Colorado's biggest reservoir. It's the ...

A photo of Glen Canyon Dam from 2022, when the dam's intake points were 33 feet away from minimum power pool. The top of the grate-like penstocks can be seen in this photo. Credit: Luna Anna Archey / ...

A record-breaking mega dam project in China’s far western Xinjiang region – built with the help of artificial intelligence and digital twin technologies – has begun storing water. The Dashixia Water ...

Ethiopia says dam will provide power to country and region Egypt says the startup violates international law Trump tried to broker deal over project during first term Many Ethiopians not yet on the ...

Ethiopian PM says dam will electrify entire region but Egypt fears it could restrict water supply during droughts Ethiopia has inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, a project that could ...

Ethiopia officially inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a rift with downstream Egypt that has ...