When it comes to safety, the burden is heavy. Recently, professionals in hydropower engineering and related fields gathered in Yichang, Hubei Province, to discuss the potential risks the world’s dams are facing and the latest hydropower engineering innovations.
This year, the annual meeting of the China National Committee on Large Dams (CHINCOLD), a platform for exchange on China’s hydropower industry, both at home and abroad, coincided with the Fifth International Symposium on Dam Safety, attracting over 900 specialists and engineers from more than 20 countries, including Brazil, Spain, the United States, Indonesia, Zambia and Ethiopia.
The joint conference, themed Building Safe, Resilient and Green Large Dams for the National Water Network, was held from September 24 to 25 in
