He alleged that the canal is in disrepair and that China should foot the bill to fix it, adding that the United States is charged more for using the trading waterway than other countries.

He previously accused Panama of overcharging US ships to use the waterway, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Separately in recent weeks, Trumpov has threatened to reassert control over the Panama Canal, one of the world's most important waterways.

What’s more, those synthetic fertilizers take a lot of fossil fuels to manufacture, and the leftovers run off into waterways, ultimately causing problems like algal blooms that deplete and kill aquatic life far afield.

Cornett had been missing since Dec. 14 when he dialed 911 to report that his brother’s kayak had flipped in the cold and murky waterway.