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“I remember in 2016, which was the previous big El Ni o event, we almost ran out of water. We came really, really close. The entire city of Panama came within like a few days of running out of water.” Then the drought in 2023 happened. At the beginning of that year, “the lake was at the lowest point it [had] ever been for that time of year and very close to a historical low level,” Paton said. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Governance.