In 2019 it was world news for fifteen days: the fall of Spanish toddler Julen into a hundred meter deep, illegal well. Rescue workers work day and night to save him, but Julen does not survive. What happened to him could have happened anywhere in the country. The Spanish soil is littered with illegal wells.

Series Description

The four part series Water Crime delves into the dark world behind drought and links the global water shortage to a crime scene including a victim, an eyewitness, a suspect and a perpetrator. A dead man in the Mexican desert, a Spanish toddler’s fatal fall into a well, a rape in Nairobi and explosions of a pipeline near a Greek island. Each episode in Water Crime shows a different place in the world where water disappears and moral dilemmas arise.