Authorities who manage the Panama Canal have implemented travel restrictions to prevent large container ships from running aground. Drought is the culprit. As Steve Paton, director of the Physical Monitoring Program for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, tells host Marco Werman, it takes millions of gallons of fresh water to allow the passage of a single
Authorities who manage the Panama Canal have implemented travel restrictions to prevent large container ships from running aground. Drought is the culprit. As Steve Paton, director of the Physical Monitoring Program for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, tells host Marco Werman, it takes millions of gallons of fresh water to allow the passage of a single