Mosul Dam No Longer on Brink of Catastrophe
After six months of intensified repairs, Iraqi officials claim the massive Mosul Dam has been saved from impending disaster. But experts say it will always be at risk of collapse and will need constant maintenance. "There remains no danger to the dam now," Hassan Janabi, Iraq's minister of water resources, told VOA. "It is with […]Rikar Hussein writes for Voice of America:
After six months of intensified repairs, Iraqi officials claim the massive Mosul Dam has been saved from impending disaster. But experts say it will always be at risk of collapse and will need constant maintenance.
"There remains no danger to the dam now," Hassan Janabi, Iraq's minister of water resources, told VOA. "It is with overwhelming happiness to announce that it is going back to normal operation."
The 13-kilometer-long dam on the Tigris River in northern Iraq is the Middle East's second-largest dam. Concerns over its instability have been persistent since its construction in 1981 — when it was known as the Saddam Dam — due to the fact that it was built on a soft landscape, and there have been continuing questions about shoddy work when it was built.
