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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

At 11:57 that night, the eastern portion of the dam gave way.

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

To cry now would be to unleash something, a deluge she wasn’t sure she’d be able to dam once released.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

He labelled rogue bankers as "half-wits" and said the dams and flood dykes lining the Yangtze River were as "flimsy and porous as tofu dregs".

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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

Switzerland is less exposed than some of its European neighbors to swings in energy prices, given its more diverse energy mix that features hydroelectric dams and nuclear power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir through some of the hottest, starkest country on the continent.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

Scientists have warned that Himalayan glaciers are melting because of climate change and creating glacial lakes, often dammed by loose rock and debris, which makes them unstable and prone to bursting their banks.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024

Meadows along those dammed riverscapes have already acted as wildlife safety zones during several fires that burned through the reservation over the past few years, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

The process dirtied lakes, cut down forests and dammed up rivers.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 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

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

When beavers move into a stream or creek and begin building their damming complexes, the ponds and wetlands they create are an antidote to all these problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 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

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