A combination of heavy rainstorms and snowmelt caused the water held back by the coffer dam to overtop an emergency spillway, ...

The already messy effort to stop millions of gallons of sewage from pouring into the Potomac River just got a lot harder — and a lot longer — after DC Water discovered a massive underground rock ...

In the rural community of Jangada, in the municipality of ​​Brumadinho in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, the water that supplies local families comes from springs that emerge onsite. In a Youtube video ...

This is the Mullaperiyar Dam. It has been around since well before your grandparents were born. And it could fail at any moment now. What could cause the dam to collapse? How quickly would this lead ...

This is the second in a series of stories highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Teton Dam Disaster. Read our first installment here. IDAHO FALLS – Richard Robison was 13 when he saw the collapse of ...