When pumping commences in October, the Northern Midlands Irrigation Scheme will provide irrigators with a new water source.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S., has made national ...

Few human constructions inspire awe quite like a massive dam. Rising hundreds of meters above riverbeds, these concrete and earth giants hold back entire seas of freshwater, generate electricity for ...

China is building the 315-metre Shuangjiangkou dam in Sichuan, which could become the world’s tallest completed dam. Engineers are using 27 sun-tracking mirrors to direct concentrated sunlight onto ...

For nearly a century, Thompson Falls Dam cut fish off from hundreds of miles of river, with the eventual solution having ...

Specialized inspection and rescue vessel supports dam safety operations at Shenango Dam in Pennsylvania LAS VEGAS, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SAFE Structure Design, a U.S.-based defense and ...

Study by civil engineers finds that the history of the Jagersfontein dam deviates from best engineering practice. On 11 September 2022, a diamond mine waste storage facility, known as a tailings dam, ...

In 1913, the US Army Corps of Engineers began a major project on the Hudson River at Troy, New York, that would reshape navigation between the river and the state's expanding canal network. The new ...

For our nations’ first engineering force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, dams and the massive reservoirs of fresh water they preserve, have become an essential element of its overall mission. Allen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 6—MITCHELL — Updated watershed data suggests more water could come into Lake Mitchell for a once-in-a-millennium rain storm, ...

Growing up, we got to play with all kinds of things in miniature. Cars, horses, little LEGO houses, the lot. What we didn’t get is a serious education with miniature-sized dams. This recreation of the ...

On the night of 9 October 1963, one of the worst dam-related disasters in European history unfolded in northern Italy. A massive section of Monte Toc collapsed into the Vajont Reservoir, displacing ...