From the Latin American Herald Tribune:

The projections prepared by the Panama Canal regarding international trade demonstrate the need, within 15 years or less, for a second expansion of the waterway, but climate change appears to present an obstacle to those plans due to its effect on water sources.

“A fourth set of locks without more water is just a dream,” said Panama Canal Authority (ACP) administrator Jorge Quijano in discussing the plans for a future second expansion of the waterway just a few days before the one-year anniversary on June 26 of the entry into service of the first expansion.

A sign that climate change “is occurring” is that already in Panama there has not been “as before, continuous precipitation in … May, June and July,” when – in the past – there “always” used to be rain “almost every day.”

“Now we’re seeing … three days of a lot of rain and then three days without rain. And that is part of climate change. For the Canal, water is life, just as it is for us humans,” he said.

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