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 ...

After centuries of dam building, a nationwide movement to dismantle these aging barriers is showing how free-flowing rivers can restore ecosystems, improve safety, and reconnect people with nature.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Constructed in the 1930s, the dam at Lake Bronson had deteriorated to the point where it was considered dangerous and needed to be replaced.

The farmer-led nonprofit Center for Sustainability and Working Rivers has at least 15.5 million views on videos about the ...

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 ...

Angus Hughson from the Big Ditch in Australia explains why erosion control really matters for earthen dam safety ...

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