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Twenty-six deaths were linked to a dam breach at Liulan Reservoir, with seven still missing there, state news agency Xinhua reported.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

Zhou's family is among tens of thousands of people in Guangxi displaced from their homes since Typhoon Maysak swept the region over the weekend, causing rivers to swell and dam walls to break.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

This question puts a crack in the dam, and in no time, a flood of emotional consequences follows.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

A wide river of cropped hair, crisp T-shirts, and adrenaline stretching almost 500 feet to Herndon, where they’re held back by an invisible dam about to burst.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Roz stepped out from the trees and onto the dam.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

More than a thousand people have been evacuated from their homes, mostly in the mountainous county of Hualien in Taiwan's east, where authorities are monitoring two barrier dams.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

There are few homes immediately around the proposed release site, but villages, roads and dams all fall within the broader area tigers might one day roam.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

The animals in the Wyre Forest have built many dams that help to reduce flooding, since moving into the enclosure, including one stretching 30 metres.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

The Central Valley Project includes 20 dams and about 500 miles of aqueducts and canals, stretching from the Redding area to near Bakersfield.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

It’s an enormous power line stretching across eleven hundred miles of jungle, connecting hydroelectric dams below Léopoldville to the distant southern mining region of Shaba.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

These lakes are prone to failing because they are precariously dammed by walls made of frozen earth, rocks and ice created by the movement of a glacier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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

It is dammed by a massive ridge of rubble that the glacier piled up over thousands of years.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024

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

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

Organisers said the chances of seeing the nocturnal animals during the day would be slim but added the tours would offer a first hand look at the animals' damming and digging skills.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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

California has essentially gotten out of the business of building surface reservoirs though damming — “this is probably the last gasp of the concept of California surface reservoirs,” Gleick told me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

I dropped the crushed pods into the pot, filled it with water, and waited for it to finish damming.

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