<story><title>A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal</title><url>https://www.westerninvestor.com/national-business/a-drought-has-forced-authorities-to-further-slash-traffic-in-panama-canal-disrupting-global-trade-8126368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donor20</author><text>One note - they don’t pump water out and back into the locks from a neighboring storage. They flush the water. Each ship needs like 40 million gallons?&lt;p&gt;Maybe title should be insane wastes of water forces authorities…. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dogsgobork</author><text>The new locks do have water saving basins, which reduce the water waste by about 60%.</text></comment>
<story><title>A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal</title><url>https://www.westerninvestor.com/national-business/a-drought-has-forced-authorities-to-further-slash-traffic-in-panama-canal-disrupting-global-trade-8126368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donor20</author><text>One note - they don’t pump water out and back into the locks from a neighboring storage. They flush the water. Each ship needs like 40 million gallons?&lt;p&gt;Maybe title should be insane wastes of water forces authorities…. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stkdump</author><text>I had to check if that realistic. 40 million gallons at 85 feet is 11MWh of potential energy. At 70% efficiency it would take 16MWh to pump that. That has to be a small amount of energy compared to what ships take for traveling the detour.</text></comment>