Water's Guardian Angels
S01:E07 - India: Rain Ponds
S01:E01 - The Desert Wells of Peru
Built over 2000 years ago by the Nazcas, a pre-Columbian people known for immense lines and animal drawings in the desert.
S01:E02 - Sand Dams in Kenya
Kenya has been hit hard by global warming, affecting southern regions' traditional short (Oct-Dec) and long (Mar-May) rainy seasons.
S01:E03 - Indonesia: Sharing Water
Predatory tourism competes with subak for land and water. In 2012, Bali had nearly 1,200 subak and 100,000 hectares of rice fields.
S01:E04 - The Artificial Glaciers of Ladakh, Northern India
Perched over 3500 meters high, Ladakh is a mountainous desert where only glaciers make life flow.
S01:E05 - Kenya: The Guardians of the Singing Wells
Namunyak in Kenya's Rift Valley is a wild, arid ecosystem shaped over thousands of years by heat and dust.
S01:E06 - Spain's Treasure Canals of Al-Andalus
Farmers run it via water user associations. In disputes, they turn to The Tribunal de las Aguas de la Vega de la Valencia.
S01:E07 - India: Rain Ponds
In Kikruma, a Nagaland village situated at 1,600 meters, every drop of water is a treasure.
S01:E08 - Floating Vegetable Gardens in Bangladesh
Predicting a good harvest in Bangladesh is difficult! Unlike other countries, farmers are threatened not by a lack of water, but an overflow.
S01:E09 - Tunisia: Farming With the Tides
This nature-friendly agriculture is threatened by a 1980s road built to link the village to the port and coastal beaches.
S01:E10 - Cape Verde: Land of Canals
It is this water that is drawn and conveyed by gravity to the hundreds of canals that wind through the mountains, up to the cultivated terraces.