The US Department of the Interior (DoI) has set a deadline of September for a final agreement on the water management and dam removal plans for the Klamath River Basin in Oregon and California.

IWP&DC invited member countries of ICOLD to join in with our 60th anniversary edition, and help celebrate the international construction of dams over the past 60 years. So which dam did the following ICOLD committees believe to be their country’s most important since 1949?

The Severn Estuary’s 14m tidal range represents a huge source of predictable (though intermittent) low-carbon energy. The UK government’s feasibility and consultation process – which will take several years to come to a conclusion about whether to proceed with the exploitation of this potential – has compiled a short list of five schemes selected from ten contenders. Report by Leonard Sanford