When we talk about feats of engineering, very few megastructures on Earth rival the sheer scale of China's Three Gorges Dam. It's located in Hubei province, spanning the mighty Yangtze River, and it's ...

Few human constructions inspire awe quite like a massive dam. Rising hundreds of meters above riverbeds, these concrete and earth giants hold back entire seas of freshwater, generate electricity for ...

Kariba Dam is the world's biggest dam based on water storage capacity. Located at the former Kariwa (Kariba) Gorge, the dam creates Lake Kariba, which has a storage capacity of 185 billion cubic ...

Scientists say future runoff should be considered in planning 'water resource development, storage infrastructure' and in ...

The project is already generating electricity even though construction of the dam is still underway. Two of the six planned generating units are operational.

The Soviet-era Roghun Dam project has endured decades of uncertainty and opposition, now major funding tranches appear to ...