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Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to help the population with agriculture. But one of them is completely unique ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced over the weekend that construction had begun on a megadam on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo river. Just last year, Chinese ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 2, 2025 shows the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province. The Three Gorges project, the world's largest hydropower project, has generated over ...

China has started construction of what would be the world’s largest hydropower dam. Chinese Premier Li Qiang on July 19 led a ceremony marking groundbreaking for the Motuo Hydropower Station, a ...

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s Premier Li Qiang announced construction had begun on what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau, at an estimated ...

China on Tuesday launched a pumped-storage hydropower station featuring the world's tallest dam of its kind in Jiangsu, the eastern economic powerhouse province.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia on Tuesday inaugurated Africa’s largest dam to boost the economy, end frequent blackouts and support the growth of electric vehicle development in a country that ...

Pakistan has a coastline, opening to the Arabian Sea. It even has an embryonic surfing scene, and that’s a worthy story for another time. But historically, the country hasn’t been typically known as a ...

When completed in 1930, the structure — stretching 1.5 miles long and rising 210 feet high — was the largest earthen dam in ...

China has begun construction on the world's largest hydropower dam, a project so massive that Premier Li Qiang called it the "project of the century." But the dam could also create a big problem for ...

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, speaking during the launch, said the dam was a “big achievement” that would show the world what Africans are capable of accomplishing. Dozens of visiting African ...