A prolonged drought has affected Gatun Lake, jeopardizing the Panama Canal's operations and threatening tourism, agriculture ...

The Panama Canal ... that drains toward the canal's human-made lakes, Gatun and Alajuela. About 65% of the water that flows from the watershed today goes to operate the locks.

Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened ... in height and strength. The Gatun upper locks, mid-construction, Courtesy ...

The Panama Canal system is made up of a series of waterways and locks connecting the country's two coastlines ... recently ...

According to Ayax Murillo Burgos, Hydrology Manager of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), Gatun Lake is at 86.50 ... of recycling tanks in the Neopanamax locks saves 60% of the water per lock ...

Water levels in Gatun Lake, the rainfall-fed principal reservoir that floats ships through the Panama Canal’s lock system, have “continued to decline to unprecedented levels for this time of ...

A video released from the US Coast Guard shows how one of its vessels travels through the Panama Canal ... lock raises the ships until they're 85 feet above sea level. They then travel across ...

China and the strategic Panama Canal are much on the minds of the western hemisphere security leaders and experts gathered at ...

The artificial lake provides the water needed to move ships through the Panama Canal's lock system ... approval from the roughly 12,000 people who live in the 200 villages around the Indio ...

Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened ... in height and strength. The Gatun upper locks, mid-construction, Courtesy ...