In August, the average wait time for ships went from less than a week to nearly a week and a half, creating a bottleneck.
Today that number is down, but part of the relief came from using more fresh water.It’s similar to the two-decade drought that has choked the Colorado River and left Nevada’s Lake Mead at 34% of capacity.
According to NASA, this summer was the hottest on record. Last month was the fifth straight in which ocean temperatures set record highs. The United Nations estimates that the increase in natural disasters displaces more than 20 million people worldwide each year. In the meantime, Panama is expected to lose out on tens of millions of dollars in revenue because of the bottleneck.
Our economy has a direct effect on how fresh water is used in Panama. And remember, it wasn’t just American ingenuity that built the canal, but also American imperialism. Not until 1999 did we relinquish control.
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