In Panama economic needs threaten to erase a way of life

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Community leader, Digna Benite, calls her village of Limon de Chagres, a land made of love. Tomas Ayuso/NPR

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Panama has been looking for solutions to a long-term problem. Every time a ship passes through the Panama Canal, more than 50 million gallons of fresh water from Lake Gatun pour out into the ocean.

Nobody ever thought Panama could run out of water. It is one of the rainiest countries in the world. But a couple years ago, a drought got so bad that the canal had to reduce traffic

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