GRANTS PASS, Ore. — As the climate gets warmer, the old rules for when to let water out of Columbia Basin dams and when to hold it back won’t work. So researchers from the University of Washington’s ...

French dam and hydropower professionals have launched a public initiative to develop a LEGO hydropower set dedicated to dams.

As engineers at California’s Oroville dam began to investigate what led to the failure of the main spillway during heavy runoff in February and analyze solutions, they looked for help nearly a ...

Researchers have developed a model to assess how dams affect the viability of sea-run fish species that need to pass dams as they use both fresh and marine waters during their lifetimes. The aim is to ...

Across the world, large dams stand as some of humanity’s most ambitious engineering achievements. They are built not only to generate electricity, but to control floods, support agriculture, and ...

Arch dams, classically curved monoliths situated in narrow valleys, are not as common as other types of dams, such as embankment dams and gravity dams. ACS, based in Spain, is one of the most active ...