The dam that holds back the drinking water for Dallas needs to be replaced. Mercer Dam is of those dams built in the 1950s with rock and dirt, which are not exactly seismically resilient materials ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift more than a meter. Reading time 2 minutes Humans have built so many dams ...

China is building the largest power plant the world has ever seen, in a very remote corner of Tibet. But the $167 billion hydropower dam has environmentalists and neighbouring countries concerned. On ...

If it weren’t for the construction of Libby Dam, in Libby, Montana, I’m not sure I’d be here today. I know for certain I wouldn’t be its natural resource manager. But more than that, I might not even ...

What a difference in how the Lake Williams dam looks after two years. The old dam with the road crossing over the crest is long gone. In its place is a rehabilitated dam with a reconstructed spillway.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on July 7, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On July 7, 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Denver Water will forge ahead with construction on its $531 million project to raise Gross Dam despite the threat of ongoing litigation that could derail the ...