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rrrrr · 3195 days ago · link · · parent · post: Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1m people
From the article:A second structure, the Badush dam, was started 20km downstream, to prevent a catastrophe in the event of the Mosul dam’s failure. But work on Badush halted in the 1990s because of the pressure of sanctions, leaving it only 40% complete.