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 ...

One of humanity's largest ever projects is slowing down the spin of the Earth, making our days slightly longer. Work on China's Three Gorges Dam, the largest power station in the world, wrapped up in ...

The Bauchi State government with the support of donors organisations, said that it has perfected plans to construct 100 semi-earth dams along cattle routes across the state to ensure adequate ...

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To help them achieve that goal, the government recently announced plans to build the biggest hydropower dam in the world. The dam will be built on a river in Tibet called the Yarlung Tsangpo, with ...

The torrential rainfall in parts of South Africa has improved the surface water storage levels in the country’s dams to 79.8% this week, a huge increase as compared to last week’s 74.5%.

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 ...

At one time, more than 300 dams were envisaged in the Ganga basin and its tributaries by the government ... C.P. Rajendran is an Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...

After a decade of mostly declining to finance large hydroelectric dams, the World Bank is getting back into the business in a big way. Throughout the last half of the 20th century, the bank was the ...

Science: NASA scientists have warned that China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power station, has the potential to slightly alter Earth's rotation. The massive dam, which spans ...