Engineers warn that the Senteeko Dam near Barberton is at risk of collapse, prompting urgent evacuations downstream.

South Africa’s Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has issued a warning that a dam in Mpumalanga could collapse at any ...

Senteeko Dam, officially registered as My Own Dam with the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), recently dominated news headlines as authorities scrambled to prevent a possible structural failure ...

This is the Mullaperiyar Dam. It has been around since well before your grandparents were born. And it could fail at any ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has dispatched a team of dam safety engineers to assess and closely monitor ...

The department’s spokesperson, Wisane Mavasa, said an emergency safety assessment by its dam safety office confirmed that the ...

We are not happy yet, and we are not going to declare this dam safe,” said Wally Ramokopa, Head of the Specialist Unit: Dam ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation and the City of Mbombela have warned farming communities around the dam to evacuate ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation says emergency interventions are continuing to reduce the potential impact of the ...

My Own Dam, publicly referred to as Senteeko Dam, is registered with the department’s dam safety office as a 26m-high medium ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive investigate structural failures, flood dynamics, and human behavior during a dam collapse.