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The city was heavily damaged by the 2023 destruction of the Kakhovka dam, which unleashed major flooding along the Dnipro River.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Thanks to growth based on the availability of water and power from the dam, it’s now the hub of a metropolis of 2.3 million residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

One morning last month, Paxon, now a 79-year-old county commissioner, pointed to where the diminished reservoir lapped at the base of the 301-foot dam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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

When he spoke, his words rushed out like water bursting through a weakened dam.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

As they fall further, Hoover and Glen Canyon dams could lose their capacity to provide water and power downstream and even become vulnerable to physical damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Apart from tackling the ongoing haze, this exercise was aimed at boosting declining water levels at several hydropower dams ahead of a severe dry spell forecast for October.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The aqueduct seemed to make the city’s founding river not just obsolete but dangerous, so construction began on catch basins, dams and reservoirs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

They work very hard, some days planting rice and vegetables and cutting lumber, and other days building dams and digging trenches.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

An overflowing dammed lake upstream of the Gyirong Port in Tibet forced 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

Some Alaskans are evacuating their homes as meltwater escapes a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier - raising fears of record-breaking flooding in the US state's capital city.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025

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

Part of the river had been dammed to form a washing pool.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

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

Andrew Law, a sociologist at Newcastle University in the U.K., has used lidar mapping to digitally preserve structures along China’s Yangtze River that were threatened or wiped out by extensive damming.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2025

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

And he pushed the King out of the door, damming it in his face.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White