Local communities vow to fight new Panama Canal reservoir | In Pictures News

Magdalena Martinez has spent her entire life along the banks of the Indio River, but a proposed dam intended to shield the Panama Canal from drought now threatens to engulf her home.

The 49-year-old is among hundreds of residents opposing an artificial lake that would feed the crucial interoceanic waterway.

“I feel sick about this threat we’re facing,” said Martinez, who lives in a wooden house with a metal roof in Boca de Uracillo with her husband and five of her 13 children.

“We…

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News Source: www.aljazeera.com

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