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In USA of the small and medium-sized dams in this country were built to last just 50 years. (Nowadays the typical design life is more like 100 years.) According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, about 30 percent of the more than 76,000 dams in the United States are older than 50 years--and by 2020, that number will increase to more than 80 percent. That's a lot of old dams, some of which hold back not just water but toxic sediments from early industrial operations. Once they start to go, a lot of people will be poisoned and/or flooded. Bearing in mind, for example, the failures to prepare for the New Orleans flooding, and for future global warming, the US Federal Goverment is likely to ignore this.

Apparently the US administration are happy to "Pray to God" but they do not "Check the Ammunition", in the words of the song.