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October 23, 1984

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Fountains of Paradise #S11E11

55 min 1974 5 months ago

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NOVA S11 E11 1974

Fountains of Paradise

NOVA · Season 11, Episode 11

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?

Episode 11 of Season 11 from NOVA — available to stream in HD on any device.

Country United States

Genre

Documentary

Released

03 Mar, 1974

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1 The Case of ESP 2 Antarctica: Earth's Last Frontier 3 China's Only Child 4 Will I Walk Again? 5 Visions of the Deep: The Underwater World of Al Giddings 6 Down on the Farm 7 Make My People Live: The Crisis in Indian Health Care 8 The World According to Weisskopf 9 Space Bridge to Moscow 10 The National Science Test I 11 Fountains of Paradise 12 The Mystery of Yellow Rain 13 The Nomads of the Rain Forest 14 Farmers of the Sea 15 Frontiers of Plastic Surgery 16 Space Women 17 Jaws: The True Story 18 Acid Rain: New Bad News 19 Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life 20 The Garden of Inheritance

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