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California’s dams are filling up, thanks to the winter’s heavy storms — but soon the state’s dams will be opening their floodgates to prevent overflowing.

Just a few weeks after they scrambled to score cheap political points against American disaster response from the condo collapse in Miami, Chinese state media organs are grudgingly admitting the deadly floods in Henan province show their government did a poor job of infrastructure planning and construction.

China shut down almost half of the water flow through its southernmost dam on the Mekong River on December 31, reducing water levels downstream by enough for a U.S.-funded satellite monitoring system to notice.

Both the Edenville and Sanford dams failed in Michigan last Tuesday, causing severe flooding in the state that caused many to evacuate their homes.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission revoked the license for the Edenville Dam complex in central Michigan — which breached Tuesday — in 2018 because of concerns that the dams would not be able to withstand heavy flooding.

Chinese officials responded on Tuesday to alarming photos of the Three Gorges Dam posted on social media by insisting the dam is completely safe and has suffered only a few millimeters of structural distortion over the years.

“Republic of Thirst” is a three-part series made possible by a generous fellowship from the Robert Novak Foundation. Part I of examined the debate over how California’s scarce water resources should be allocated. Part III will examine whether those resources can

Cape Town, South Africa, a city of four million people, will run out of water on April 12, in what local officials are calling “Day Zero.”

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) is leading an effort to end environmentalists’ ability to delay the building of dams and reservoirs on federal land by fast-tracking control of the permitting process, placing power in the hands of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

California wins the booby prize as the worst state in the nation for spending money on infrastructure, according to the latest Visual Capitalist financial analysis.

President Donald Trump could bring high-speed rail lines to America, taking up the mantle that Barack Obama started but failed to complete.

A federal judge refused late Friday evening to block the transfer of a dam to two Native American tribes. Montana lawmakers had launched an emergency petition to block the transfer. It is feared that the tribes intend to contract with Turkey for access to uranium to make “yellow cake” and/or nuclear weapons.