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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Photographer Gideon Mendel has spent 12 years documenting floods all over the world.

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Our demands on groundwater are creating huge cracks, across the earth’s surface.

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How could a plant be the key to producing food security in a drought?

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Mega-droughts in Brazil lead to toxic foam polluting the Rio Tietê.

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The greatest migration of any insect has profound consequences for two continents.