Grand Canal project in Nicaragua worries bishops and scientists
(The Christian Science Monitor) On the windy shore of Lake Nicaragua, farmer Dayton Guzman surveys the vast expanse of water his family relies on for irrigation of the land they have been farming for generations.
“If something affects the lake,” he said, “it affects us.”
The lake’s future is in doubt since a Chinese-backed canal project was inaugurated late last year. The multi-billion-dollar Grand Canal is slated to stretch 170 miles from the Caribbean to the Pacific, and some 60 miles of it will cross through this lake.
