>>1943061Given that salt water mixes into the freshwater lake every time they opened the locks anyway, they should have at least put a desalinator in the water supply mix.
""We have to keep that level of salt water within a certain range, because the water treatment plants do not have desalination capacity," he added."
Looking to the future, since they will probably expand it again, they should work toward it becoming a seawater lane like Suez.
Sure it's expensive to blast through rock and Suez is flatter etc. But its something that you can spend 10 years doing now and have a waterway thats still usable in 40 years time.
Otherwise people are just going to build beyond Panamax limits and go around.
