Despite recent rains, in the record held by the authority of the Panama Canal, the semester between December 2018 and May 2019 has been the driest in its history. Suddenly, Panamanians are confronted with two environmental realities: climate change and water scarcity. These phenomena have not been a surprise since for decades scientists and environmentalists have been warning about these threats. It is time to understand that water needs forests and greater conservation of the vital resource. You cannot be irresponsible in front of the environmental reality that the country is living. It will be useless to have an enlarged Canal if it is still reducing the draft of the ships that can transit it. This is the time for the Government, the private company, and civil society assumes the task of saving the ecosystems that we have left and restore those we have damaged. The political and economic model of Panama produces inequity and environmental loss that affects us all. If we do not change,  a Channel without water, will not be the only nightmare that we will have to face: LA PRENSA, June 19