Synopsis
This episode travels to the Congo, Egypt, China and Mexico to reveal how water changed humanity's footprint on the planet.
- Programme: H2O: The Molecule That Made Us
- Episode: 2: Civilisations
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2021
- Biology
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