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Big Dams, Big Damage: The Growing Risk of Failure Posted: 21 Aug 2018 10:29 AM PDT Last month, a partially completed dam in Laos' Attapeu province collapsed, washing away people and villages in its path. Hundreds of people are still missing and more than six thousand are homeless. And after last summer's hurricanes, U.S. citizens in Houston and Puerto Rico escaped death but were forced to evacuate when dams were flooded. […] Related posts: Sustainable Water, Resilient Communities: The Challenge of Erratic Water Risk, But Also Opportunity in Climate Fragility and Terror... Continue reading on NewSecurityBeat.org |
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