this unpaved road crosses the farming community of tanas in Panama but this Evergreen Valley will be submerged if the Panama Canal Authority moves forward with a plan to construct a massive Dam on the Rio Indio yet the 1.6 billion project to create a new Reservoir in the next 6 years seems as necessary as it seems extreme the Panama Canal Ries on freshwat to operate its locks and provide drinking water to the population but a severe drought in the past year restricted vessel transits threatening Panama’s main source of hard currency income and meteorologists predict hotter and drier weather to come the authority believes the reservoir project is the most complete solution for a changing climate but some in the community are fighting for an alternative