While tearing down a dam can cost millions of dollars, the price of keeping an obsolete barrier in place may be even steeper.

The Minister of Tourism and Antiquities has announced that the country will introduce free visas for travellers. However, ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is closely monitoring the Vaal Dam after the dam’s water levels drastically increased from last week’s 24.3% to 46.2% this week. According to the ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is closely monitoring the Vaal Dam after the dam’s water levels drastically increased from last week’s 24.3% to 46.2% this week. According to the ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct a date related to an official visit. We regret the error. On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on ...

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The Vaal Dam has shown remarkable recovery over the past week, rising from 25.5% on 8 January to 46.15% by 14 January. Vaal Dam. Image: Department of Water and Sanitation The Vaal Dam has ...

The Three Gorges Dam, one of the largest engineering feats ... where the sunlight has to pass through the atmosphere. Image via Wiki Commons. The concept was described in Science in 1968.

NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...

A Professor of Geology and Water Resources at the Cairo University Abbas Sharaky explained that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was designed to hold 11 billion cubic meters, but its ...

China has announced an ambitious plan to build solar power stations in space using super-heavy rockets. The concept called “another Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth” has been outlined by a ...