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0983089 - 1997
PANAMA Lake Madden / Lago Arujuela -- Fisherman returns from an afternoon on Lake Madden, one of the two principal lakes which supply the Panama Canal with the millions of gallons needed every year to provide lockage for ships. Situated in the fragile Panama Canal Upper Watershed, the lake is surrounded by forest and thousands of poverty-stricken migrant farmers, who until controls were imposed in the mid-1980s, had deforested a large chunk of the watershed. Smithsonian scientists who study the watershed say that if deforestation were to begin again after 1999, it could threaten rainfall levels and in turn the functioning of the canal. The lake - fed by the River Chagres - is also the main supply of drinking water for Panama City and Colon -- 07/1997 -- Picture © Jon Mitchell / Lightroom Photos
©2006 TopFoto / Jon Mitchell
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