Group chief, Digna Benite, calls her village of Limon de Chagres, a land made of affection.
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Group chief, Digna Benite, calls her village of Limon de Chagres, a land made of affection.
Tomas Ayuso/NPR
Panama has been on the lookout for answers to a long-term downside. Each and every time a boat passes throughout the Panama Canal, greater than 50 million gallons of clean water from Lake Gatun pour out into the sea. No person ever idea Panama may run out of water. It is among the rainiest nations on this planet. However a pair years in the past, a drought were given so unhealthy that the canal needed to cut back site visitors via greater than a 3rd – which had an enormous affect on world transport.The Panama Canal wishes extra water. Government have made up our minds to get it via construction a dam in a place that may displace greater than 2,000 other people alongside the Rio Indio.For sponsor-free episodes of Imagine This, join Imagine This+ by the use of Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.orgEmail us at considerthis@npr.org
This episode was once produced via Karen Zamora, Rolando Arrieta, Andrea Salcedo, Alejandra Marquez Janse, and Tomas Ayuso.
It was once edited via Courtney Dorning and Nadia Lancy, with assist from Alejandra Borunda and Neela Banerjee.
Our government manufacturer is Sami Yenigun.