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Its dam helps provide electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes across seven Western states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Meanwhile Egypt has been at loggerheads with Ethiopia since the construction of a massive dam on the Nile, which Cairo views as an "existential threat".

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Listen to the full Witness History episode about the race to save wildlife at the Itaipu dam on BBC Sounds.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The great slope of Mulholland’s concrete gravity dam in the Hollywood Hills — a model for the one that failed — was covered with dirt to disguise its terrifying height.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Babou’s unnecessary and humiliating lesson in how to dam tea had one benefit: I now knew where Mamou kept her tea and hel.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Traditional water bodies, including ponds and check dams, have been revived across the region, while women-led groups known as Jal Sahelis work in villages to monitor supplies and promote water conservation.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

They say without an agreement, dams on the river that are used to generate hydropower could cease to function.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

“Like all dams, there are little seeps here and there,” Mulholland would later testify at a coroner’s inquest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Arizona, California and Nevada are downstream of the dams; Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico draw their water before it reaches them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Ents and Huorns were digging great pits and trenches, and making great pools and dams, gathering all the waters of the Isen and every other spring and stream that they could find.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Late one night in October 2023, part of the shelf of rocks and ice that dammed the lake in northeast India collapsed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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

A creek had been dammed, creating ponds that slowed the flow of water so the surrounding earth had more time to sop it up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

The process dirtied lakes, cut down forests and dammed up rivers.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 2024

That night Fayge began to speak, as if the words so long dammed up had risen to flood.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

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

Respected non-partisan polling organisation Afrobarometer released a damming report earlier this year.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 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

Virtually every river worth damming already has been.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

The impact would have knocked down every structure in the city and collapsed the underground waterways, damming the Uzumark that flows under our feet, and flooding the whole valley.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor