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NOVA

Season 11 · Episode 11

Fountains of Paradise

0.055mOctober 23, 1984

NOVA explores the billion-dollar-plus Mahaweli Irrigation Project in Sri Lanka. Will this high-risk project prove to be a great leap forward or an industrial and sociological disaster?

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Episode 3China's Only Child
Episode 4Will I Walk Again?
Episode 5Visions of the Deep: The Underwater World of Al Giddings
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Episode 8The World According to Weisskopf