The Molecule That Made Us

H2O: The Molecule that Made Us tells the human story through our relationship to water.

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    Crisis

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    Earth’s changing water cycle, and water for profit, are forcing changes across the globe.
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    Civilizations

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    Travel into the past to see how water created the earliest civilizations.
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    Pulse

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    How did water become the essential force behind all life? Dive in!

About The Molecule That Made Us

H2O: The Molecule that Made Us is a landmark, three-part series that tells the human story through our relationship to water. We find out how our success is intimately connected to our control of the molecule, but that the growth of our civilizations has also created a dangerous dependence on a precious resource. One that may be about to run out.

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