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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.

Earth’s changing water cycle, and water for profit, are forcing changes across the globe.
Earth’s changing water cycle, and water for profit, are forcing changes across the globe.
Travel into the past to see how water created the earliest civilizations.
Funding for H2O The Molecule that Made Us is provided through the support of PBS viewers. Major funding for H2O The Molecule that Made Us is provided by: Anne Ray Foundation, Draper, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and Lynn Bay Dayton and Bruce C. Dayton. H2O: The Molecule That Made Us is partnering with The Nature Conservancy to broaden the impact of the science and solutions documented in the film. Learn more about the partnership.
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Earth’s changing water cycle, and water for profit, are forcing changes across the globe.
Travel into the past to see how water created the earliest civilizations.
How did water become the essential force behind all life? Dive in!
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How did water become the essential force behind all life? Dive in!
Travel into the past to see how water created the earliest civilizations.
How could a plant be the key to producing food security in a drought?
H2O: The Molecule that Made Us tells the human story through our relationship to water.
Our demands on groundwater are creating huge cracks, across the earth’s surface.
Photographer Gideon Mendel has spent 12 years documenting floods all over the world.
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See the role drought can play in war, and in politics around the world.
Watch free Diver Camila Jaber dives in a cenote, in the Yucatan, Mexico.
The greatest migration of any insect has profound consequences for two continents.