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.

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

Since 1964, the Columbia River Treaty has required Canada to control the flow of the river, via dams, to meet U.S. needs for hydropower and flood prevention — in exchange for half the proceeds from ...

Pakistani separatist group targets Chinese convoy near Karachi airport, killing two, raising security concerns for foreigners.

Here's how full and how much water is in 16 California reservoirs after Pres. Trump's water releases and winter storms in ...

Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to ...

No sooner was he sworn in than Donald Trump, in a series of ‘executive orders’ and memos, unleashed pandemonium in the global ...

BASF’s Ludwigshafen Chemical Complex in Germany is the world's largest. The size of small city, it is the cradle of the group ...

With an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,760 kilometers), our planet Earth is the biggest of the terrestrial planets and the fifth largest planet in our solar system. It is the only planet in the ...

Sophia Franklin, 16, was last seen Feb. 3 at her family's Beaver Dam home, prompting an AMBER Alert. Franklin is with Gary F. Day, 40, who officials say is the father of the teen's unborn child. Leah ...