Mosul Dam could fail "at any time"

[Crumpets]

1 million people who live downriver could have their lives threatened if it does.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/mosul-dam-engineers-warn-it-could-fail-at-any-time-killing-1m-people?CMP=fb_gu

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The Mosul Dam must qualify as one of the worst engineering blunders on earth. It essentially has to be continuously lathered with concrete to prevent its collapse.

And this would be a horrifying disaster if (and I fear, when) it comes.

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

Today there was signed contract for some kind of securing of Mosul dam construction but I don't know the details, it is some Italian company.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Terrible news.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Mosul Dam must qualify as one of the worst engineering blunders on earth. It essentially has to be continuously lathered with concrete to prevent its collapse.

Are you saying that building a massive dam on gypsum bedrock was not a very good idea?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Iraqi engineers also said the failure to replace machinery or assemble a full workforce more than a year after Islamic State temporarily held the dam means that the chasms in the porous rock under the dam were getting bigger and more dangerous every day.

Its worse than that; the correct word is actually soluble...

[ingemann]

The interesting part are how stupid ISIS have been, while many Shia will likely  be hurt by this, the main victims if this should happen are the Sunni population of Mosus and the cities around it. The Shia will also be hurt, but when it reach them the flooding will be a lot less bad.

[YaBoyNY]

The interesting part are how stupid ISIS have been, while many Shia will likely  be hurt by this, the main victims if this should happen are the Sunni population of Mosus and the cities around it. The Shia will also be hurt, but when it reach them the flooding will be a lot less bad.

ISIS literally does not care about your average Sunni Iraqi.

[Silent Hunter]

Trevi has signed a deal with Iraq to repair the dam:

RUDAW report

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The interesting part are how stupid ISIS have been, while many Shia will likely  be hurt by this, the main victims if this should happen are the Sunni population of Mosus and the cities around it. The Shia will also be hurt, but when it reach them the flooding will be a lot less bad.

Oh yes because ISIS usually shows much concern for most Sunnis.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/03/world/meast/isis-mass-killing/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/30/mass-graves-hundreds-iraqi-sunnis-killed-isis-albu-nimr

[ingemann]

Okay people there's a major differnce between not caring about other people abstract and letting a major flooding destroy the biggest city you control. Mosul which lies down river from the dam, are controlled by ISIS and and so are most of the major towns along the river halfway down to Baghdad. I can't imagine that it would help ISIS military to kill of 0,5-1 million people who live under their control and support them.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Okay people there's a major differnce between not caring about other people abstract and letting a major flooding destroy the biggest city you control. Mosul which lies down river from the dam, are controlled by ISIS and and so are most of the major towns along the river halfway down to Baghdad. I can't imagine that it would help ISIS military to kill of 0,5-1 million people who live under their control and support them.

Game theory?

[DavidB.]

Game theory?

Varoufakis needed a new job anyway...

[ingemann]

Okay people there's a major differnce between not caring about other people abstract and letting a major flooding destroy the biggest city you control. Mosul which lies down river from the dam, are controlled by ISIS and and so are most of the major towns along the river halfway down to Baghdad. I can't imagine that it would help ISIS military to kill of 0,5-1 million people who live under their control and support them.

Game theory?

I'm not sure what ISIS have to gain by killing off 15% of Iraq's Sunni Arabs most of them among the most loyal to ISIS. ISIS have nothing to gain if the dam are destroyed.

[Cory]

Okay people there's a major differnce between not caring about other people abstract and letting a major flooding destroy the biggest city you control. Mosul which lies down river from the dam, are controlled by ISIS and and so are most of the major towns along the river halfway down to Baghdad. I can't imagine that it would help ISIS military to kill of 0,5-1 million people who live under their control and support them.

This.

All because ISIL is bad doesn't mean they're stupid.