INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT:THE PANAMA CANAL EXPERIENCE

April 8th, 2019

Carlos A. VargasVice President

Water and Environment

Panama Canal:Introduction

Panama: Logistics and Transportation Hub of the AmericasReaching the Maximum Potential from our Geographic Location

144 commercial routes1,700 ports160 countries

Panama’s Maritime Hub

Panama Air Hub85 direct destinations in America and Europe35 countries

Connectivity7 submarine fiber optic cables

Asia – US East Coast 78.4M

Central America West Coast – US East Coast 17.0M

Total: 255.0 M (long tons)

Asia – East Coast Central America 8.1M

South America West Coast – US East Coast 37.2M

South America West Coast - Europe 16.9M

Transits and PC/UMS Tons

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1914 1922 1930 1938 1946 1954 1962 1970 1978 1986 1994 2002 2010 2018

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Transits PC/UMS Tons

442.1 M of PC/UMS Tons4,832 9,931 18,940

28,204

AF 1955 AF 1975 AF 2016AF 1995

13,795 transits

36,192

AF 2018

Updated as of: 30-Sep-2018

∆ = 247+1.8%

∆ = 38.3 M+9.5%

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Container

Dry Bulk

*Tankers

Vehicle Carriers

Refrigerated

General Cargo

Passengers

Others

*Tankers include LNG & LPG

∆ = 16+12%

∆ = 25+24%

∆ = -5-6%

∆ = 714%

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Chemicals

Ammonium

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LNG

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LNG

LPG

LN

Beginning of

operations

ECONOMIES OF SCALE

LPG-Panamax VLGC

Average load: 25,000

metric tons

Average load: 43,000

metric tons

Average load: 70,000 metric tons

LNG – New market segment

Pre-expansion0,5 M long ton/month (avg)

Post-expansion1,9 M long ton/month (avg)

New Markets Are Opening As Well

Largest Containership

Panama Canal: Water Resources Management

Water Monitoring

60 stations

Quantity

Quality

Technology

Telemetry System and Master Stations

Hydrometeorological Database

Satellite Weather Data Receiving Station

NOAA Port

Radiosonde

Hydrologic Forecast Model of Rivers and Lakes

(PANFCST)

(NWSRFS/CHIPS)

Water Use

Navigation and Lockage

Municipal and Industrial Consumption

Water Use: Hydroelectric Generation

GATUN

MADDEN

Flood Control

Gatun

Madden

Purisima7th – 9th December 2010

El Niño2016

Panama Canal:Watershed Management

Panama Canal Watershed

LegendLegend

International borders

Panamá Canal Watershed

The Panama Canal Authority, in

accordance with state organisms

determined by law, is responsible for the

administration, maintenance, use and

conservation of the Panama Canal

watershed hydrological resources, which

include the water in lakes and their

tributary streams.

Law 19

June 11th, 1997

Regulations

June 17th, 1999

Regulations and

agreements

ACP: 1999 - 2006

Law 20

June 21th 2006

Constitutional

Title

November 25th,

1994

Political ConstitutionTITLE XIV

Article 316

• Encourages mechanisms of coordination

• Establishes resource management and a funding system

• Monitors programs, projects and policies for watershed management

• Evaluates programs, projects and policies to avoid double work

• Administrates an environmental information center

Panama Canal Watershed Interinstitutional Commission(CICH)

Alto Chagres y Lago Alhajuela

Cirí, Trinidad y Ciricito

Baila Mono, Rio Paja,Cañita y Pescado

Corredor Transístmico

Colón

Corredor Transístmico

Panamá

Hules Tinajones y Caño Quebrado

29 Local commitees

6 Consultive boards

Panama Canal Watershed Participants Scheme

EnvironmentalEquilibrium

Social and cultural

Economic

Sustainable Development and Watershed Management

29

Environmental Education and Community Program

• Watershed guardians

• Our canal and its basin

• The 3R's Campaign

Use of native species in land reforestation within the

Panam Canal watershed (page 228-233). 2011.

http://www.cich.org/publicaciones/Memoria-HELP-2011.pdf

Environmental recovery of disturbed areas in protected land

Reforestation – conservation: Native species reforestation

Historical background of the origin and purpose of

white straw bush (Saccharum spontaneum L.)

insertion in a Panamá. 2010.

http://www.cich.org/documentos/paja-blanca.pdf

Camino de Cruces 2015Camino de Cruces 2010

• Seeks to reduce the slash and burn - traditional method,

by integrating communities as fundamental elements.

• Farm planning, sustainability, natural resources protection

and farmers/technician training.

• Use of perennial species (timber types, coffee, fruit tres)

combined with crop.

La Bonga, Nov 2010

La Bonga, March 2014

La Bonga, Nov 2014

Agroforestry System

Coffee training workshop (CATIE) Field Evaluation

Training and Follow Up

Field evaluationMonitoring evaluation Plantation monitoring

Visits

Coffee Production and Marketing

Carbon Credits

Panama Canal:The Green Route

http://iahrworldcongress.org

HOTEL RIU PLAZA

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