Life at 50C: Mexico's struggle for water

Climate change is causing once-mighty rivers to dry up and temperatures to rise to deadly levels in Mexico.

As the BBC's Life at 50C season continues, this film follows paramedics struggling to treat those with heat-related illnesses, as well as a community campaigning for water to be released so that the Colorado river can flow once again.

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