The Dam Protections against Overtopping and Accidental Leakage is a technical and scientific community launched in 2014 during the 1^st International Seminar on Dam Protections against Overtopping and Accidental Leakage (Protections 2014) in Madrid (Spain). The first seminar seeded the foundations to build a project which first common goal was to keep this group alive, based on the interest awakened in many of the participants. This led to the organization of Protections 2016, the second edition of this seminar, held in Fort Collins (Colorado, USA). As a result of these initiatives, the present blog is presented as a meeting point for everyone interested in this subject, a wide highway of knowledge and discussion to help to consolidate the Protections Community as a group.