A CONSUMER group wants Malacañang to do a full audit of the Kaliwa Dam project and hold accountable those behind the release of P1.828 billion in advance payments to the project's foreign contractor.

Even after Wilbur’s proclamation, the dam was referred to in the press by both names, but it was called Hoover in all official documents and congressional appropriations bills. When Hoover lost ...

Ethiopia has confirmed that it has finished filling the reservoir at its giant new dam, which uses water from the Nile. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) is on the Blue Nile tributary in ...

The authorities were evacuating people downstream from the Nolichucky Dam, warning that a breach could cause deadly flooding. By John Yoon The Nolichucky Dam in eastern Tennessee remained intact ...

In a following update to Facebook, nearly 3 hours later, Mathis said the dam had been "breached, but not catastrophic as of last report." "This news has bought us some time. The evacuation is ...

National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists are urging North Carolina residents in Rutherford County downstream of the Lake Lure Dam to evacuate immediately as the dam is at risk of imminent ...

Officials in Cocke County, Tennessee said on Friday afternoon that the Waterville Dam, just over the state line in North Carolina, had failed and ordered everyone in downtown Newport to get out.

The Federal Government on Tuesday alerted Nigerians to the water release from Lagdo Dam in Cameroon. The FG made this known in a press statement signed by the Director General/Chief Executive ...

LAKE LURE, N.C. – Authorities went house-to-house urging people below the dam of a popular lake in the western North Carolina mountains to evacuate Friday after officials warned the barrier ...

A structural engineer assessed the Lake Lure dam Friday evening and determined its failure is not imminent, a town official said. The Lake Lure dam in western North Carolina overtopped Friday ...

Andrew Van Dam writes the Department of Data column each week for The Washington Post. He has covered economics and wrangled data and graphics for The Post and the Wall Street Journal. He got his ...