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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.