Dozens of boats carrying around 200 people traveled along Panama’s central Indio River on Friday to protest a planned reservoir in the Panama Canal intended to solve water shortages in the waterway that have threatened international trade flow. Protesters say the construction would force 2,000 people to be relocated from their homes because their communities would be flooded. (AP Video: Matías Delacroix)
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Plan for water reserve to ease Panama Canal shortages fuels river protest

Dozens of boats carrying around 200 people traveled along Panama’s central Indio River on Friday to protest a planned reservoir in the Panama Canal intended to solve water shortages in the waterway that have threatened international trade flow. Protesters say the construction would force 2,000 people to be relocated from their homes because their communities would be flooded. (AP Video: Matías Delacroix)
 
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