America's Water Crisis is our three-part series about the sad state of freshwater in America. VICE correspondent Emerson Rosenthal dons his Speedo to explore New York's poopy Hudson River as well as sinkholes in central Florida and the water war between Northern and Southern California. Here's the entire documentary in its full-length version.
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