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President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, then the largest concrete structure ever built.

First Lady Lady Bird Johnson formally dedicated Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona on 22 September 1966, three years after its last concrete was poured and the river began backing up into Lake Powell.

Lyons Bakery's purpose-built plant in Carlton, South Yorkshire opens as the largest bakery in Europe, and starts baking what becomes the Mr Kipling cake range under later owner Manor Bakeries.

Idaho's new Teton Dam breached around midday on 5 June 1976 as its reservoir filled for the first time, releasing the entire lake, flooding five counties and killing 11 people.

Water begins flowing from the newly completed Katse Dam through the Lesotho Highlands Water Project to Johannesburg, the first payment on a 1986 treaty that turns Lesotho’s rainfall into its biggest export.

The board of Airbus parent EADS, meeting in Amsterdam, gave Airbus the go-ahead on 1 December 2006 to launch the A350 XWB family, a clean-sheet rival to the Boeing 787 with entry into service planned for 2013. Funding was to come mainly from company cash flow and the Power8 savings plan.

Erosion at Oroville Dam's emergency spillway prompted an evacuation order on 12 February 2017 for communities along the Feather River, about 188,000 people, after the main spillway had been damaged on 7 February.

Airbus announced with its half-year results on 29 July 2021 that its board had approved development of an A350 freighter derivative, targeting entry into service in 2025 with 20% less fuel burn than twin-engine freighters.

Crews finished dismantling all four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in 2024, the largest dam-removal and river-restoration project in US history.

Meta’s site-specific information sheet describes the Beaver Dam, Wisconsin data centre as a forthcoming facility. The global directory records a 2025 groundbreaking; no confirmed opening date was found.

Ethiopia formally inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile in September 2025, capping over a decade of construction on Africa’s largest hydropower project.

Swiss utility KWO finished building a new 113-metre arch dam directly in front of its cracked 1932 predecessor high in the Grimsel Pass.

Queensland abandoned its plan for a new downstream dam in July 2026 and committed instead to rebuilding Paradise Dam's existing wall back to its original height.

Lake Mead's surface fell to 1,040.50 feet above sea level, below the 1,040.58-foot record of July 2022, after a record-low snowpack left the reservoir that supplies Las Vegas lower than at any time since it filled in the 1930s.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed the Record of Decision and 2027-2028 Operating Guidelines for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, cutting Lower Basin deliveries by 1.25 million acre-feet a year for two years, 50,000 of them Nevada's, as both reservoirs hit record lows.

Amazon pledges $20 million and launches the Colorado River Basin Collaborative, a corporate coalition with Aldi, The Coca-Cola Foundation, Ecolab and others that aims to raise $100 million for water projects across the basin in two years.

Black Mountain Energy Storage pitched an 85 million USD Backbone Creek battery near Max Starcke Dam in Burnet County, Texas; EIA data lists 121 MW and ERCOT 124.1 MW, with operation expected December 2026.