4 ms·
The overwhelming majority of deaths from dam failures in living memory were the result of one disaster in China in 1975 which was suppressed by the communist go
by VintageCool 4y ago
The overwhelming majority of deaths from dam failures in living memory were the result of one disaster in China in 1975 which was suppressed by the communist government. It wasn't until 20 years later that Westerners started to learn about it.
- shakow 4y agoSure, there is this one outlier, but there are quite a few >100s deaths incidents in the West too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure
- natmaka 4y agoMost of them were not hydro-electric dams, which are statistically more recent and in practice way more effectively monitored (people are permanently occupying most of the not-tiny-ones).