Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to ...

Show more Show less The Siang river on which the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP), a proposed hydroelectric mega-dam project, is planned in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India ...

Inland remnants of tropical cyclones are notorious rainfall flood producers, as the recent tragedy in Texas in early July 2025 illustrated. But on Aug. 7, 1975, 50 years ago today, one of the world's ...

Trace 5,000 years of dam engineering, from ancient marvels to China's Tsangpo project, amid the rising race for Himalayan hydropower.

China's Three Gorges Dam has effectively changed Earth's axis by nearly an inch since it was built nearly 18 years ago, ...

ZHENGZHOU -- The Yellow River, China's second-longest river, has seen its first flood of the year following torrential ...

China has built the world's largest, most comprehensive water infrastructure system, benefiting the largest number of people.

India says the proposed new mega-dam could counteract rival China's building of a likely record-breaking dam upstream in Tibet by stockpiling water and guarding ...