A joint venture between US companies FlatironDragados and Sukut Construction has been selected through a best-value procurement process to deliver the $1.9bn Anderson Dam Seismic Retrofit project in Morgan Hill,…

Tajik president Emomali Rahmon visited the under-construction Rogun hydropower dam this week to instruct the main contractor, Italy’s Webuild, to “work around the clock” while the benign summer weather lasts.…

Construction has begun on the world’s largest hydropower dam, a $167bn Chinese project on the Yarlung Zangbo River, according to state news agency Xinhua. Five cascade hydropower stations will produce…

As a brand new hydroelectric dam in remote Northeastern British Columbia, Canada gears up for full generation this autumn, locals are grappling with an unexpected problem: What to do with…

China gave the go-ahead to build what would be the world’s biggest hydropower dam in Tibet on 25 December, sparking concerns in India. First proposed in 2020, the dam on…

Italian contractor Webuild has been awarded a $4.7bn project to build three dams for Saudi Arabia’s Neom megadevelopment. The aim is to make a freshwater lake for the Trojena ski…

Queensland state water company Sunwater has hired CPB Contractors and civil engineering firm Georgiou to build a replacement wall for the unfixable Paradise Dam on the Burnett River near Bundaberg.…

Egypt has declared the latest round of talks with Ethiopia over the latter’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on a tributary of the Nile River to be over without agreement.…

Chinese contractor Gezhouba Group has halted work on the $800m Kandadji hydroelectric project in Niger after international sanctions prompted by the 26 July coup froze funding, Reuters reports. The 130MW…

A report by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) has estimated that $158bn is needed to fix the US’ non-federal dams, although this falls to $34bn if repairs…

A Chinese construction supervisor at the Dasu hydropower project in Pakistan has been arrested on blasphemy charges after a crowd assembled to protest over alleged remarks he made that workers…

Ethiopia said Friday that its Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile is 90% complete 12 years after work began, the Middle East Monitor reports. Faqrati Tamru, the vice-chair of the…