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In the America's with David Yetman
Tlaloc's Revenge: Mexico City's Hydrological Heritage
Season 8
Episode 801
Five hundred years ago, the basin where Mexico City lies was plagued with an excess of water. With fundamental alterations in social attitudes toward water, one of the world's largest and greatest cities comes to grips with falling water tables, exhausted springs, and sinking earth. Somehow the city endures.
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