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On Aug. 26, the alert mechanism failed again and the dam was dashed to pieces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

That happened back in 2023, after nine years of campaigning, and halted the construction of a hydropower dam that would have damaged the ecosystem.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Nepal has almost no large reservoirs capable of doing this: its main storage dam, Kulekhani, holds less than a tenth of a cubic kilometre, "so there's nothing to release", says Sanyal.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Worker Buddha Tamang said he survived only because he was inside a tunnel at the dam where he worked when the flood struck -- but he had managed to get out and reach help.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

When he wasn’t in Haiti, Farmer frequently gave speeches, lots of them, and invariably he mentioned the dam we were now staring at.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

More than 2,000 hydropower workers were scattered across dams, riverside camps, underground power houses and miles-long tunnels when the flood hit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Floods tore through mountain districts, destroying roads, bridges and multiple hydropower dams that day.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

A barrier lake is a body of water formed when debris dams up a river.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Ryan Gellert, the company’s chief executive, said the state’s plan to assess the planet-warming gases coming from dams and reservoirs is “a critical step forward in California’s transition to cleaner energy and water infrastructure.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Usually, the company bulldozed the slack dams open, but during a strike that wasn’t going to happen.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

According to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, a dammed lake upstream of the Gyirong Port in Tibet has begun overflowing, forcing a temporary suspension of rescue operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

He traveled around New England and wrote about it, looking for nature at its most untamed, but sometimes finding mills and factories and a river dammed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 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

Stained glass windows on the west side of the church, in the direct path of the storm, were shattered, allowing rain inside in addition to dammed stormwater forced into the building, Glenn said.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

This vast stream of life, dammed and muddied, is trying to sweep toward that fulfilment which all of us seek so fondly, but find so impossible to put into words.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

That mass of rock and ice plunged about 800 metres onto a debris-covered glacier, before surging downhill, briefly damming the Lhende River.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

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

The fight between environmentalists and dam builders escalated in the 1960s, after the bureau proposed damming the Colorado River next to another U.S. treasure: Grand Canyon National Park.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 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