While Baja and Southern California receive torrential rain, a 100 year drought snarls traffic, with 200 cargo ships waiting to pass, through the Panama Canal because there’s not enough fresh water to fill the channel from freshwater lakes.
Climate change will affect us in ways we can’t imagine. We must end fossil fuel subsidies and new drilling now.
@Flo_Rian @pascaline @georgetakei all freshwater ends up in the ocean. The canal is fresh water above the locks because it used natural rivers wherever it can. We wouldn't want to pump saltwater into the freshwater system and harm the ecosystem even more.
Plus the mixing of the gulf of Mexico and the pacific ocean ecologies wild do significant damage to both.
@Shadowfalx
No, of course not, but we need the water on land with the droughts so prominently damaging the land. Rivers being forced into canals and locks is so often a bad idea. Plus it often means some location hog the water, depriving other regions to make use of the river water.
George Takei 
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Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥
Flo
Dennis