Jun 4, 2017
Dam catastrophe could cause $40 billion in economic damages and huge loss of life.
"A rupture of the 370-foot-high structure would put 4 million people at risk by sending floodwaters racing more than 200 miles downstream as far as the capital of Baghdad, engulfing villages, destroying farms and causing up to $20 billion in economic damages, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates.”