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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The maximum land elevation of the canal is almost 100 feet above sea level.

Excavating an area 50-100 feet down and very wide would be a massively expensive project.

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