Science and Nature

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.

Crisis

54m 36s

'Crisis' examines how the planet’s changing water cycle is forcing us to change our relationship with water. An increasingly, globalized agricultural industry is turning precious water reserves into profit, “mining” water faster than it can be replaced. As Chairman Emeritus of Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe says, “.... the water issue is more urgent than the climate issue."

Episodes

  • Crisis: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Crisis

    S1 E3 - 54m 36s

    'Crisis' examines how the planet’s changing water cycle is forcing us to change our relationship with water. An increasingly, globalized agricultural industry is turning precious water reserves into profit, “mining” water faster than it can be replaced. As Chairman Emeritus of Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe says, “.... the water issue is more urgent than the climate issue."

  • Civilizations: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Civilizations

    S1 E2 - 54m 36s

    'Civilizations' turns our ‘water lens’ on human history. Starting in Ancient Egypt, it charts the critical role water plays in history, and around the world we see the birth of civilizations on the banks of the great rivers: Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, Indus and Yellow. We end by asking if we can guarantee water supplies of the future?

  • Pulse: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Pulse

    S1 E1 - 54m 36s

    'Pulse' opens on the rock and ice of Greenland, where geologist Stephen Mojzsis shares a new theory on how water first arrived on Planet Earth. See the world’s longest insect migration, and meet the Munoz family, who use cutting edge time-lapse rigs to show the rare spectacle of deserts around the world exploding from barren wastelands into rich carpets of flowers. But the pulse is under threat.

Extras + Features

  • Episode 3: Crisis - Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Episode 3: Crisis - Preview

    S1 - 30s

    'Crisis' examines how the planet’s changing water cycle is forcing us to change our relationship with water. An increasingly, globalized agricultural industry is turning precious water reserves into profit, “mining” water faster than it can be replaced. As Chairman Emeritus of Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe says, “.... the water issue is more urgent than the climate issue."

  • Episode 1: Pulse - Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Episode 1: Pulse - Preview

    S1 - 30s

    'Pulse' opens on the rock and ice of Greenland, where geologist Stephen Mojzsis shares a new theory on how water first arrived on Planet Earth. See the world’s longest insect migration, and meet the Munoz family, who use cutting edge time-lapse rigs to show the rare spectacle of deserts around the world exploding from barren wastelands into rich carpets of flowers. But the pulse is under threat.

  • Episode 2: Civilizations - Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Episode 2: Civilizations - Preview

    S1 - 30s

    'Civilizations' turns our ‘water lens’ on human history. Starting in Ancient Egypt, it charts the critical role water plays in history, and around the world we see the birth of civilizations on the banks of the great rivers: Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, Indus and Yellow. We end by asking if we can guarantee water supplies of the future?

Schedule

  • H2O: The Molecule That Made Us: TVSS: Iconic

    The Molecule That Made Us

    Pulse

    Monday
    Apr 28

    1 Hour

    How water arrived on Earth, and how it became the essential force behind all life -- from dragonflies to humans.
  • H2O: The Molecule That Made Us: TVSS: Iconic

    The Molecule That Made Us

    Civilizations

    Monday
    Apr 28

    1 Hour

    How water may have driven the evolution of man and created the earliest civilizations; whether the Earth's water supplies can guarantee the future of humans.
  • H2O: The Molecule That Made Us: TVSS: Iconic

    The Molecule That Made Us

    Crisis

    Monday
    Apr 28

    1 Hour

    Earth's changing water cycle, and the globalized movement toward water for profit, forces changes across the globe with regard to people's reliance on water.

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