Sadd el-Kafara: The Oldest Dam in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2023
About 40 km southeast of Cairo, close to the town of Helwan, lie the ruins of the Sadd-el-Kafara, a large embankment dam built approximately...
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How a Failed Dam Legalized Marrying The Dead
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2021
Sitting low among the hills, just north of the city of Frejus, in southern France, not far from the French Riviera coast, are the broken rem...
The Dambusters Raid of 1943
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 11, 2020
On the night of 16–17 May 1943, a squadron of the Royal Air Force conducted a daring mission deep into German territory to destroy two dams ...
The Ruins of Gleno Dam
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2020
In a small valley, among the mountains of Lombardy, in northern Italy, stands a dam, or rather, half a dam. Built on the Gleno Creek, the Gl...
The Vajont Dam Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2020
In the valley of the Vajont River, about a hundred kilometers north of Venice, stands an old, disused dam. The vast wall of white, wedged hi...
The New Croton Dam And Spillway
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2015
The New Croton Dam, across the Croton River, near Croton-on-Hudson, about 35 km north of New York City, was built between 1892 and 1906 to d...
Annual Sand Washing Operation at Xiaolangdi Dam on Yellow River
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2013
These incredible pictures were taken at Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River in Jiyuan, Central China’s Henan province early this month....
