Thursday, May 26, 2011

Panamaaa

Wow, I can´t believe we have already been here for a week! What an incredible experience it has been. The most eye opening part about the trip so far is the fact that in Alto Caballero, which is the community I have been assigned for my clinicals has no running water unless it has rained. This seems to be a huge problem for the country of Panama which is kind of interesting considering that Panama is also the home of the Panama Canal which does not recycle water that is used in locks system. The lock system uses 52 million gallons of water for one transit and makes 38 transits a day. Just think of all that water that is going to waste just a few hundred miles away from Alto Caballero where they do not even have enough water to wash their hands with. That is 1,976,000,000 gallons of water a day. Ay, caramba! After being at the internet cafe for over an hour hopefully I can actually get this to post this time.

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