dam

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The dam, which is 30% complete, was meant to be an architectural centerpiece—bowing outward, in defiance of standard engineering in which dams arc inward.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Water levels at the dam stabilised over the weekend.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

Samples were collected near the Santa Maria da Serra dam, close to the Barra Bonita reservoir, where contaminants from across the river basin tend to gather.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

Army Corps of Engineers to release vital water supplies from the dam to make room for winter floods that didn’t come.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

The sight of the drowned farmland, the result of a dam that had made his patients some of the poorest on this earth, was Farmer’s lens on the world.

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