irrigation and “other ecosystem services essential to Nicaragua’s economy”. The lake is particularly vulnerable because it is shallow, with an average depth of 12.5 metres, and is exposed to wind ...

Heilprin, entitled The Shrinkage of Lake Nicaragua, which is certainly the ... which would afford less than 30 feet (the proposed depth of the canal) at the points where the canal enters and ...

The canal will also run through Lake Nicaragua, which risks becoming polluted with industrial chemicals and invasive plants and animals. In-depth studies on the canal’s environmental and ...

Water is also an issue. Most of the country’s drinking water comes from Lake Nicaragua, whose 15-meter-deep bottom will be dredged to nearly double that depth to make way for huge container ships.

But inside Nicaragua is perhaps one of the most enigmatic bodies of water on Earth — a freshwater lake that is surprisingly home to oceanic creatures, notably bull sharks. Lake Nicaragua ...

Could this really be the place where within a decade the world’s largest vessels will enter Nicaragua and pass through forest, lake, mountain and jungle between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans?

as well as how much land will be seized and how it will affect Lake Nicaragua. In order to meet the required depth for the canal, the Lake will have to be dredged. Many of the 30,000 Nicaraguans ...

The canal construction plan entails dredging Lake Nicaragua to almost twice its current depth. This could cause sedimentation in San Juan river, whose southern bank is Costa Rican territory.