Andrew Van Dam writes the Department of Data column each week for The Washington Post. He has covered economics and wrangled data and graphics for The Post and the Wall Street Journal. He got his ...

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Anyone up for a walk across the Central Park Reservoir? A rarely-seen divider that stretches across the center of the Manhattan watering hole was exposed this week as the city grapples with a ...

Dramatic video captured the chilling moment a Russian bomb severely damaged a major dam in Ukraine's Donetsk region. The explosion blew a hole in the Ternivsky dam, causing water to pour out of ...

Ethiopia has confirmed that it has finished filling the reservoir at its giant new dam, which uses water from the Nile. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) is on the Blue Nile tributary in ...

A controversial Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile river began generating electricity for the first time on Sunday, according to state TV. The $4.2bn (£3.8bn) dam, located in the western Benishangul ...