Because Jimmy Carter gave it away.
Perhaps a power plant, desalination plant and water pumping stations to keep the lakes full?
Ships have gotten WAY bigger, even bigger than the last time the Canal was widened, and the level of traffic keeps going up.
Perhaps it is time to see about the OLD PLAN of going through Nicaragua with a sea level canal.
The canal is dying because the US doesn’t own and operate it anymore. I remember well when Carter gave it away. All the intelligentsia were in favor of this, even William Buckley but the American people were almost unanimously opposed. This stupidity was one of the reasons that Reagan won in a landslide and the GOP gained control of the Senate and although the Dems still had the house but narrowly, they were quite intimidated by Reagan. So some good did come out of this folly. I hope that Trump will find a way to take back control. It needs to be done.
climate change?
Time to build a new canal through Nicaragua.
I thought glaciers were melting and sea level was rising?
Another 100 years, and the Pacific Ocean will meet the Gulf of Mexico - 25 feet ABOVE Panama.