The most dangerous dam on the planet
Posted on November 27, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Waterblogged.info’s elevator rant: In 1983, Sadam Hussein’s engineers build a gigantic dam on a bed of soft, water-soluble rock and guess what it starts to leak almost immediately and they have to keep injecting a concrete mixture into its base continuously so it doesn’t collapse and after the U.S. invades it leads an effort [...]
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