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Its dam helps provide electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes across seven Western states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Meanwhile Egypt has been at loggerheads with Ethiopia since the construction of a massive dam on the Nile, which Cairo views as an "existential threat".

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Among the first to die was the man who had alerted Mulholland to the seepage — Tony Harnischfeger, who lived just below the dam with his 6-year-old son.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

After a 2016 accusation linked to the targeting of banks and a dam outside New York City, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said the US should prove such accusations.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

The sight of the drowned farmland, the result of a dam that had made his patients some of the poorest on this earth, was Farmer’s lens on the world.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The Dutch -- with their dikes, dams and vast waterworks--have long been admired for their tenacity in the face of flood risks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

The country is less reliant on imports and has a more diverse energy mix that makes use of its hydroelectric Alpine dams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Of all the dams I have built and of all the dams I have ever seen, it was the driest dam of its size I ever saw in my life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Dr Alan Puttock, from the University of Exeter in Devon, said dams and ponds created by the mammals held water, slowed its flow and provided refuge for wildlife struggling in the parched countryside.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

Late one night in October 2023, part of the shelf of rocks and ice that dammed the lake in northeast India collapsed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

He traveled around New England and wrote about it, looking for nature at its most untamed, but sometimes finding mills and factories and a river dammed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Some Alaskans are evacuating their homes as meltwater escapes a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier - raising fears of record-breaking flooding in the US state's capital city.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025

Stained glass windows on the west side of the church, in the direct path of the storm, were shattered, allowing rain inside in addition to dammed stormwater forced into the building, Glenn said.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

She carved it into cubes while I dammed the FTGFOP1 First Flush Darjeeling and poured us each a cup.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

The creation of the reservoir, which involved damming the Gwash valley near Empingham, was finished in 1976 and flooding took a further three years, Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust said.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Habitat destruction, damming, and pollution have decimated local populations, such that many species are in dire need of help.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024

The fight between environmentalists and dam builders escalated in the 1960s, after the bureau proposed damming the Colorado River next to another U.S. treasure: Grand Canyon National Park.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024

California has essentially gotten out of the business of building surface reservoirs though damming — “this is probably the last gasp of the concept of California surface reservoirs,” Gleick told me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

They had more or less run amuck and were damming up rivers and flooding highways, filling pastures, even beginning to invade the cities.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen