dam

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At around 11 p.m. on a rainy night, Sukraj Rai, 42, a schoolteacher in Rangpo Forest, began getting frantic calls warning him that the Teesta was rising and that the Chungthang dam had broken.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

It includes measures such as banning activities in certain areas where species could be harmed or killed, like dam construction.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Samples were collected near the Santa Maria da Serra dam, close to the Barra Bonita reservoir, where contaminants from across the river basin tend to gather.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

Army Corps of Engineers to release vital water supplies from the dam to make room for winter floods that didn’t come.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

A dam across the Missouri River in Nebraska silted up so disastrously that a noisome ooze began to pour into the town of Niobrara, eventually forcing its permanent abandonment.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson