Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – government officials spend years planning a project, bogged down by permits, ...

Lake Kariba lies between Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa and is the world's largest man-made reservoir by volume - but it has recently been hit by severe droughts.

Istanbul is one of the world's biggest cities, growing larger still every year. Its rapid expansion is putting enormous ...

Frequent droughts have pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan to dam a river to save the waterway — an act that ...