The Israeli website Nziv stirred controversy by describing a hypothetical attack on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt. This prompted a strong and immediate response from Egyptian politicians ...

Into the hopper of the Federal Power Commission last week plopped a report from the Interior Department discussing the possibility of building a new federal high dam on the Snake River between ...

When the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s flooded the area, UNESCO tried but failed to recover artifacts that were swept away when water submerged the region along the river.

Prepared under the Kinkaid Act and submitted to Congress, the report recommended construction of a high dam on the Colorado River at or near Boulder Canyon. The report also suggested that the ...

"It was just fantastic to watch... It was a monument task," she said. During the dam's construction, the job of the high scaler was by far the most dangerous, as well as the most dramatic.

The 726-foot-high arch-gravity dam stretches 1,244 feet across the Black Canyon and was built over five years starting in 1931, helping provide water and hydroelectrical power to the West.