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The Ecuadorian government launched legal proceedings against Sinohydro in 2021 due to cracks appearing in the dam and other technical failures.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

Listen to the full Witness History episode about the race to save wildlife at the Itaipu dam on BBC Sounds.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

It is the biggest dam in America east of the Mississippi and something of an attraction for people who like concrete in volume.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

A barrier lake is a body of water formed when debris dams up a river.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

By the time the beavers were trapped and their dams dismantled, a few dozen acres of trees were dead and too dangerous to remove.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The California Air Resources Board says it will begin reporting how much of the planet-warming gases methane and carbon dioxide are released from dams and reservoirs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Traditional water bodies, including ponds and check dams, have been revived across the region, while women-led groups known as Jal Sahelis work in villages to monitor supplies and promote water conservation.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

“Beavers! Build dams in every brook and stream. We must not let any fresh water pour into the ocean! “

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

"The sheer wave of debris suggests there could have been a landslide first; the water built up, dammed the river, and then it burst in one huge great flood," he told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

These lakes are prone to failing because they are precariously dammed by walls made of frozen earth, rocks and ice created by the movement of a glacier.

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

It is dammed by a massive ridge of rubble that the glacier piled up over thousands of years.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024

There was a small pool at the end of the river, dammed back by sand and full of white water-lilies and needle-like reeds.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

That mass of rock and ice plunged about 800 metres onto a debris-covered glacier, before surging downhill, briefly damming the Lhende River.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Beaver officer Lauren Jasper said the sites were chosen because they offered strong habitat at the headwaters, good damming potential and an existing local flood risk.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

Andrew Law, a sociologist at Newcastle University in the U.K., has used lidar mapping to digitally preserve structures along China’s Yangtze River that were threatened or wiped out by extensive damming.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2025

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

But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates