The Colorado River was a fault line of near-tectonic political forces by the 1920s, as the seven states within its basin continued to grow in population. A 1922 compact allocated water rights from the ...

In the wake of the deadly July 4 Guadalupe River flooding that killed 119 people in Kerr County, much attention has been focused on the lack of warning systems, which left sleeping campers, residents ...

The long-proposed and debated potential dam on Drift Creek south of Silverton was denied again on Feb. 26 by the Oregon Water ...

The Shuangjiangkou hydropower project, located in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province, China, has reached a significant milestone. On May 1, 2025, the project began ...

Beaver Lake has a major birthday next year, the big 6-0. The sparkling reservoir that gives us water to drink and all kinds of outdoor recreation was completed in 1966, but the effort to build Beaver ...

H.778 aims to target the state’s “high-hazard potential” dams, or those that would likely endanger human life if they were to fail. Of the roughly 1,000 dams in the state, there are 74 dams that fall ...