South Africa's largest dams are popular tourist attraction sites, even though most were primarily built for irrigation, electricity production, and domestic and industrial use. This article ...

The structure is so big that it's reshaping the landscape of East Africa and is Africa's biggest hydroelectric dam project.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, formerly known as the Millennium Dam and sometimes referred to as the Hidase Dam, is a gravity dam on the Blue Nile River.

He says years of delays and numerous changes of partners are "normal" for a major infrastructure project like the Inga Dam. He points to the UK's Mersey Tidal Project - which if successful would be ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a 1.1-mile-long concrete colossus, is set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa. Across Ethiopia, poor farmers and rich business executives alike ...

Lake Kariba lies between Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa and is the world's largest man-made reservoir by volume - but ...

Roughly 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lack ... like the Inga Dam. He points to the UK's Mersey Tidal Project - which if successful would be the world's largest tidal barrier.

Six months after the red mud tragedy in Hungary, tailings dams in Central and Eastern Europe continue to be a major cause for concern in the region. We visit Medet, the largest tailings dam in the ...