Mosul dam on brink of collapse

[aeron]

For some time a massive irrigation and water supply dam just outside of Mosul has been quite literally on the brink of collapse and it's getting worse day by day.

This article gives much more information about what is at stake if it does fail. The effect is predicted to be even more devestating than an atomic bomb with around one million people killed and the city of Mosul wiped off the map, and it's not "woo woo" news, it's horrible cold fact.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...lapse-worse-nuclear-bomb-161116082852394.html

The last time an event of this magnitude and of this nature was 1300 years ago when the Great Marib dam failed and the socio-economic devestating that followed that one saw the invention of Islam.

I doubt if there would be another such disaster following disaster if the Mosul dam fails but the effect on the region does not bear thinking about.

 

[Warrigal]

What a horrible situation. The only real solution would be to build a new dam wall further upstream and allow the pressure to be taken off the old one. Who's going to fund that?

 

[Debby]

Oh my gosh, just read through the article and it sounds bad. And the government is useless! Makes me wonder when we'll hear the news about that dam going down and the water going up!