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The poorly-built, poorly-maintained dam that will kill hundreds of thousands if it fails

Michael Allan McCrae | December 28, 2016 | 9:34 am

The New Yorker profiles the Mosul Dam in Iraq, which was hastily built on poor foundations and is not being maintained. Completed in the 1980s by Saddam Hussein, the dam was constructed on a foundation of soluble rock since the...