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

Episode 2: Civilizations - Preview
Preview: Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
'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?
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