When the rain falls or snow melts, the rivers rise. For the engineers who study water, there is no panic—just a quiet team of professionals, carefully studying the flow, ensuring that the water stays ...
In recent years, as a result of increasingly intensive rainfall events, the associated water erosion and corrosion have led to the increase in breach risk of aging dams in the United States. In this ...
1 Hydraulic and Fluids Mechanics Laboratory (HFML), Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD), Dakar-Fann, Senegal. 2 Polytechnic High School of ...
Ethiopia has been booming with active construction of dams within the past few decades for different infrastructural needs, but has never experienced demolition or failure of dams in its history; ...
Digital elevation models (DEMs) are essential data sets for disaster risk management and humanitarian relief services as well as many environmental process models. At present, on the one hand, ...
The China Environment Forum is proud to introduce our second interactive infographic: a map of China’s “dam rush” in its southwest region. The map depicts the impressive scale of the country’s dam ...