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Lots of water in a reservoir is not particularly safe in itself. For example, in December 2000 at the Grande Dixence a high-pressure pipeline from the dam burst
by WJW 5y ago
Lots of water in a reservoir is not particularly safe in itself. For example, in December 2000 at the Grande Dixence a high-pressure pipeline from the dam burst, causing a landslide that wiped out a small hamlet and killed three people. It's also not hard to find reports of massive amounts of casualties and/or property damage from dams that just outright fail.
- Choco31415 5y agoAn underground reservoir of water though should still be safer. Only the operator(s) on site might be impacted by a failure.