Why can’t we just widen Panama Canal to like a mile wide and normalize all the water levels?

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This is an incredibly stupid question, but I’d really like to know what the consequences of a project like this would be given the current drought in the lake that feeds the canal.

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I can’t see how making the canal wider would solve anything. If anything, a wider canal will require more water and drain the lake faster. But aside from that, the Panama Canal was one of the greatest undertakings in human history. I would be easy to simply upgrade it.

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