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(dog barks)

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(birds chirping)

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- [Crew] Ready for a check?
- Cello one.

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[Crew] I'l just call take numbers
as we go.

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[Willem Dafoe] Okay.
[Performer 2] Violin one, two, two.

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(laughing)

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(indistinct chatter)

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[Willem] I've got
lots of images in my head.

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So "of" is to be included?

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(vocalises)

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Okay.

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- How're you doing on my juicy S's?
- [Engineer] That's a fairly easy fix.

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That's what I thought,
I wanted to hear it to reassure me.

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- [Crew] We're going to go for a take.
- Okay.

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(instrumental music playing)

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(water crashes)

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[Willem] Humans
have long loved rivers.

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But as we have learned
to harness their power,

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have we also forgotten to revere them?

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(light instrumental music playing)

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When the first rains fell,

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the Earth awakened.

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It rained without pause
for thousands of years

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sculpting new landscapes into being.

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(light instrumental music playing)

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Drops gathered as streams,

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streams braided into rivers

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growing in force as they flowed
ever onwards and downwards.

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(instrumental music playing)

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For eons, running water
obeyed only its own laws.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Patient and persistent,
it wore mountains away.

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(dramatic instrumental music playing)

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It looped and meandered

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laying down great plains
of lush, rich silt.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Where rivers wandered,
life could flourish.

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(instrumental music playing)

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For rivers are world-makers.

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They have shaped the Earth,

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and they have shaped us as a species.

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(instrumental music playing)

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For thousands of years
we worshiped rivers,

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as the arteries of the planet,

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the givers of gifts,

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the well-springs of wonder.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Rivers are the source of human dreams,

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and they have flowed
through our lives as surely

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as they have flowed through places.

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(ice creaking)

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(instrumental music playing)

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High among peaks
flow vast rivers of ice.

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(high-energy instrumental music playing)

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Glaciers seem frozen into stasis,

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yet they are always in flux.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Their ice has currents,

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rapids,

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eddies.

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Crevasses creak open where
they spill down valleys,

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or carve round comers.

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(instrumental music playing)

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And through these glaciers,

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wind streams of meltwater.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Freed by the sun from its
slow-motion existence as ice,

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running water starts to
sing its way to the sea.

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(instrumental music playing)

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(instrumental music intensifies)

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To be truly alive, a river must be wild,

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wilful and unhindered.

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Yearning for the ocean,
its only purpose

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is to descend.

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(instrumental music playing)

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(man chanting)

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(water crashing)

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(rain pouring)

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(man singing}

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For millions of years
humans wandered the earth.

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It was rivers that
created fertile valleys;

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made it possible for us
to settle and to dwell.

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(instrumental music playing)

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The first cities arose on
the banks of great waterways.

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Our early destiny was shaped
by the will of rivers.

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We both feared and revered
them as forces of life,

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and of death.

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We worshiped them as Gods.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Rivers inspired us as a species,

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allowing us to thrive.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Over time, they became the
highways by which trade,

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and technology spread inland,

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and along them also flowed poetry,

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stories and religions,

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politics and conflict.

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Rivers grew our towns and cities

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but they were also indifferent
to human plans and dreams.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Fickle and unpredictable,

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in flood they could wreak havoc,

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and in drought

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they could disappear completely.

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And so, we devised extraordinary
means of controlling them,

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of hamessing their force
and taming their wildness.

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(bomb exploding)

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(instrumental music playing)

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We discovered how to
regulate and manage them,

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how to run them like machines.

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We shifted from seeing
rivers as living beings

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to seeing them as resources.

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Our gods
had become our subjects.

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(instrumental music playing)

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(plane engine roaring)

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Qur ability to control rivers

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has changed the course of history.

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Droughts and floods have been averted,

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arid land made fertile.

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Rivers have helped make
war and bring peace.

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They have shaped empires,

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divided nations and nourished humanity.

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(children chatter)

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In many places the river is still revered,

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still vital to life,

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and to death.

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(instrumental music playing)

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(instrumental music intensifies)

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(light instrumental music playing)

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The worship of water is a
given to millions of people.

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The river's power remains a sacred power.

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It heals, consoles, and purges.

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It washes away sin and purifies the dead.

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It is a source of hope, love, and longing.

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It is the way of life.

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(instrumental music playing)

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To those who live and die by the river,

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their river is the river.

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Essential for emotional
and spiritual sustenance.

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Essential for survival.

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(birds chirping)

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(instrumental music playing)

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(instrumental music intensifies)

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We've learned to carry rivers

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to places they would never
naturally have flowed.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Rivers stil exert an
immense influence upon us.

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A global network of
transport and connection

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scarcely remembered in everyday life.

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Today, the world's greatest cities

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all have a river at their heart.

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Rivers have enabled unimaginable
prosperity for some.

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For all their might though,

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rivers are fragile:

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easily harmed, not so easily mended.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Vast waterways have been drained,

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and re-directed
to meet our growing needs.

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We've made deserts bloom

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fostering delusions of infinite abundance.

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(instrumental music playing)

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We've stopped going to the river.

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Now

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we bring the river to us.

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But there's always a downstream cost,

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somebody somewhere must have less.

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The amount of water in the hydrosphere

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hasn't changed since the first rains fell,

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but the number of people on
earth has grown exponentially,

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and every one of us is
utterly dependent on water.

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The sheer scale of the human project

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has begun to overwhelm the world's rivers.

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Today, there is scarcely
a river unspanned,

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undammed, or undiverted.

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(instrumental music playing)

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The grandest dams have
impounded so much water,

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that they've slowed the
rotation of the earth.

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(instrumental music playing)

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(man singing}

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Dams make miracles possible.

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They conjure clean power

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from little more than water and gravity.

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They slake the thirst of millions.

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They hold back floods

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but at such cost.

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Trapped and static, a
dammed river stagnates.

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Its sediment settles
to the reservoir floor.

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Dams achieve
what should be impossible:

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they drown rivers.

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(instrumental music playing)

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(boat engine roaring)

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(high-energy instrumental music playing)

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Once discharged, stripped of its sediment,

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dammed water brings more
damage than life.

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Floodplains and deltas are
no longer nourished by silt.

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The cycle of replenishment
we depend on is broken.

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The power-grids not the seasons

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determine the rivers' flow.

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And the energy that dams generate
often fails to reach those

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who need it most.

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(drum beats)

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(instrumental music playing)

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We have riddled our rivers with poisons
in the name of progress.

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Each year blooms of toxic algae
blight more rivers and lakes,

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leaving their water
unswimmable, undrinkable

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even fatal.

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Instead of life-giving
sediment and nutrients,

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rivers now carry millions
of tons of plastic waste

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to the sea each year.

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As ever, the poorest suffer most.

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One country's affluence
is another's affliction.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Many rivers now fight for survival.

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They gasp for water,
gather behind dams

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are channelled through
cities stripped of life.

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The mystery and beauty
of a wild river

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is beyond our ability to comprehend

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but within our capacity to destroy.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Rivers that have flowed for eons

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have been cut off in decades.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Time and again,

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upstream need and upstream greed

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have led to downstream disaster.

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(instrumental music playing)

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We have become Titans,

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capable of shaping our world

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in ways that will endure for
millions of years to come.

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For time flows too,

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and we stand upstream
of a precarious future.

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The lives of our rivers now

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will determine the destinies
of generations to come.

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We will be remembered for
all that we have depleted,

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vanished and killed.

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(sorrowful instrumental music playing}

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We must ask ourselves,

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"Are we being good ancestors?"

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Rivers live in deep time,

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tumbling through millennia.

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They give us so much more than water.

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They course through our imaginations,

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renew our spirits.

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With quiet determination,

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they overcome the hardest
and strongest things.

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(inspirational instrumental music playing)

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They run into the future,

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and they remember the past,

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painting their way across landscapes.

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(inspirational instrumental music playing)

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(birds chirping)

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At last, the river vanishes into the sea.

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Its spirit is never lost forever though,

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its death in the ocean
begins its reincamation.

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Water cannot be created or destroyed,

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it merely changes state,

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in an endless cycle of renewal

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driven by the great engine of the Sun.

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For the atmosphere is alive
with moving water too,

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the sky has rivers.

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(instrumental music playing)

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Vast Amazons and Niles
of vapour flow from sea

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back to source.

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(high-energy instrumental music playing)

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Together these sky-rivers hold more water

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than all the streams and
rivers on Earth combined.

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(instrumental music playing)

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(instrumental music intensifies)

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(thunder rumbling)

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(rain pouring)

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Many cultures have never forgotten

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what it means to think like a river,

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or how to listen to rivers.

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They know that the fate of rivers,

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and the fate of humans are inextricable.

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It's easy to forget
that there are places

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and forces which don't respond
fo the flick of a switch,

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or the twist of a dial.

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Which have their own rhythms
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Wild rivers correct this amnesia.

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Rivers are vulnerable to our harm,

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but they also possess
miraculous powers of recovery.

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Given a chance their life pours back.

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(thud)

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(instrumental music playing)

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After years imprisoned behind concrete,

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their sediment is freed
10 carry on downriver,

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and nourish the land again.

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(man singing}

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(man singing}

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(music builds in intensity)

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(man singing}

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(instrumental music playing)

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To think like a river

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means to dream downstream in time,

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to imagine what will
flow far into the future

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from our actions in the present,

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to be good ancestors to
those who will come after us,

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downstream of us.

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Look after the river,

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and the river will look after you.

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(man chanting)

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We share our fate with rivers,

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we flow together.

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(man singing}

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(birds chirping)

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(end credits music playing}