1.   And cable and video, rather than stanching the flood, are what opened the dam.

2.   There are even reports that officials opened a dam on the verge of buckling without advising residents living downstream, some of whom later drowned.

3.   When the harsh realities of desert life caught up with the fantasy of a semi-tropical Eden, the dam was opened to a prolonged water war.

4.   With high technology opening the dam, information will be gushing to us like never before.

5.   Fishermen and neighbors said they watched corpses surge to the surface of the Tshopo when the dam upstream was opened the next day.

6.   After the dam was opened, residents of the neighbouring village Mapaleng Ha started to feel earth tremors the following month.