Keyword: "dam"

Indonesia needs 300 more dams to respond to natural disasters due to negative impacts of climate change, according to Indonesia’s Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR).

Thác Bà lake is in an area between Lục Yên and Yên Bình communes of Yên Bái province. Workers began to build the lake in 1962 and finished it in 1970. Thác Bà lake was created to take water from the Chảy river to serve the Thác Bà hydropower plant.

“Dong Cam” Dam is located in Phu Yen. The dam stays hidden behind forest and mountains, faraway from any popular tourist locations, but its magnetic beauty still draws people to visit and explore.

The Temporary Crisis Centre of Thailand has just held a meeting to discuss the movements of tropical storm Pabuk and floods that may occur.

Water from a breached dam has flooded communities in central Myanmar and blocked part of a highway linking the main cities of Yangon, Mandalay and the capital Naypyidaw.

The Sepien-Senamnoi hydropower dam collapsed because of substandard construction, the Lao News Agency KPL quoted the country’s Minister of Energy and Mines Khammany Inthilath on July 27.

The World Bank (WB) has approved a 125-million-USD financial aid package to support the Indonesian government in upgrading dams across the country, reported Jakarta Globe on March 2.

Search and rescue forces of the central province of Quang Nam are making all-out effort to look for people who were missing when a dam at Song Bung 2 hydroelectric plant broke on September 13.

Experts have proposed the construction of five to seven dams along the Hong River to raise the water level, thus serving agricultural production and water transport without affecting flood drainage.