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Tlaloc's Revenge: Mexico City's Hydrological Heritage

Season 8 Episode 801 | 26m 46s

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.

Aired: 03/12/20 | Expires: 03/24/28
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
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The natural monuments that define the territories of native peoples in New Mexico.
Protecting whales and cultivating the friendship between people and the gentle giants.
Exploring a once booming tourist mecca that is now a nearly dead body of water.
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