Dams

Dams

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  Flooding forces evacuation of 1,300 in ND town

  A dam that threatened to give way and flood a North Dakota town was holding back the water on Wednesday, though the 1,300 residents of Cavalier were ... 

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  China is top dam builder, going where others won't

  Up a sweeping jungle valley in a remote corner of Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers are raising a 100-meter- (330-foot-) high dam over the ... 

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  Critic questions way coal firms build slurry ponds

  With a driver and his bulldozer missing in a thick, dark lake of coal slurry, a mine safety expert and critic of the coal industry says regulators are ... 

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  Drought revives old water war among river states

  The water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri ... 

• High court says government can be liable for flood

  The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the federal government is not automatically exempt from paying for damage caused by temporary flooding from ... 

• 4 workers missing after dam collapses in Cambodia

  Four workers are missing and presumed to have drowned after the partial collapse of a dam being constructed in western Cambodia, officials said Sunday