For three decades, politics in the 5th Congressional District have been shaped by the many “what if” questions about removing ...

In an era of moving towards more electrification and increasing power demand, it makes no sense to remove a clean, renewable ...

A memo from an Army Corps of Engineers officer shows water managers and lawmakers pushed back against the Trump administration's plan to dump water from two California dams.

The action could leave less water in dams for the summer, when farmers typically use it. Water unexpectedly released from dams on Trump’s order didn't help farms or L.A. - Los Angeles Times ...

Burying water and sewer lines exposed following a dam removal project could cost Carpentersville more than $3 million. Two ...

But dams also have prevented great suffering across the West during drought. In a system built entirely on a use-it-or-lose-it ethos, there is a perverse incentive to overuse water in times of plenty.

Humans have been harnessing the energy of river currents for centuries, using water wheels spun by rivers initially to process grains and cloth. Today, hydropower provides about 16 percent of the ...

The Banqiao Dam Disaster of 1975, in China, was the single most devastating dam failure event, with at least 26,000 killed immediately and more than 200,000 people killed in total.