Project Details
Project information, episodes and series intro.H2O:
The Molecule That Made US
About The Series.
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.
- DATE: : April 2020
- CLIENT: : Passion Pictures
- Credits : Aerial Photography
- : Digital Compositing
How did water become the essential force behind all life? Dive in! Episode 1: Pulse opens on the distant rock and ice of Greenland, where Geologist Stephen Mojzsis reveals a new theory on how water first arrived on Planet Earth. We see a dragonfly’s incredible journey from India to Africa – the world’s longest insect migration. We meet the Munoz family, ‘bloom chasers’, who use cutting edge time-lapse photo rigs to show the rare spectacle of deserts around the world exploding from barren wastelands into rich carpets of flowers. But the pulse of water is under threat.
Travel into the past to see how water created the earliest civilizations. Episode 2: Civilizations turns our ‘water lens’ on human history. In the jungle of the Congo in Africa, we see a hint of one provocative theory of evolution – Did we learn to walk in water? 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. The question is raised, can we guarantee water supplies that are needed for future existence?
How is Earth’s changing water cycle, and water for profit, forcing changes across the globe? Episode 3: CRISISexamines how the planet’s changing water cycle is forcing us to change our relationship with water. An increasingly, globalized agricultural industry has become expert at turning precious water reserves into profit, “mining” water faster than it can be replaced. In its conclusion, the series visits locations such as New York City, a surprising model for sustainable water infrastructure, and hope emerges that the water crisis is solvable.