dams

The public needs to be given more information about the dangers of flooding if dams fail, a government review says.

Aid workers are congregating from across the country in Southwestern China in the wake of the massive earthquake.

Meanwhile, thousands of troops have been sent to repair dangerous cracks in the region's dams, which could pose further threats.

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AP - The Western states' era of massive dam construction — which tamed rivers, swallowed towns, and created irrigated agriculture, cheap hydropower and environmental problems — effectively ended in 1966 with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam.