Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – ...

The Shuangjiangkou hydropower project, located in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province, China, has reached a significant milestone. On May 1, 2025, the project began ...

China has begun construction on the world's largest hydropower dam, a project so massive that Premier Li Qiang called it the "project of the century." But the dam could also create a big problem for ...

Underground dams construction can offer a potential way forwards in the quest to source sustainable water supplies when ...

Preparatory works are in full swing to resume dam construction for the 1,200 MW Punatsangchhu-I Hydroelectric Project.

The Colorado River was a fault line of near-tectonic political forces by the 1920s, as the seven states within its basin continued to grow in population. A 1922 compact allocated water rights from the ...

A group pushing to resurrect decades-old plans to build a dam on the Duck River in Columbia, Tennessee, is working with U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles to secure congressional funding to fast-track a feasibility ...

The Chinese government has said it's moving ahead with building a series of dams that will eclipse anything it has built before. The massive hydroelectric project will help the energy-hungry country ...

Beaver Lake has a major birthday next year, the big 6-0. The sparkling reservoir that gives us water to drink and all kinds of outdoor recreation was completed in 1966, but the effort to build Beaver ...

In a new wrinkle, some dam opponents have noted that legally protected California condors have been flying not far from the reservoir site.

Over the past two centuries, the construction of thousands of dams has done more than just tame rivers – it has shifted the Earth’s North Pole about a meter from its original position. By storing ...

Another building near the Rapidan Dam in Mankato has been impacted by the recent flooding. The Rapidan Dam Store building has been taken down and removed from the riverbank due to concerns that it ...