Old American Dams Quietly Become a Multibillion-Dollar Threat | Wired Science | Wired.com

We've got infrastructure problems across the board and while it is nice that we are looking into new roads and schools, what about our dams?

I mean, I love going over to Hoover Dam every so often, but really, it was built in the 1930s folks. And much of our nation's big projects aren't that much newer.

As a case if point referenced in the story, here are pics of the Russian dam disaster back on August 17th.