River dwelling tribes that number less than a thousand strong worry that when the diversion is through, the river will nolonger be navigable and may see some Xingu tributaries dry out for good, impacting their way of life and a key route to the city of Altamira nearby.
Nothing is forever, though, and the possibility that the Southwest Chief may, within a few years, nolonger come through Garden City is one of those stories built on dry, arcane economic facts.