High Water (2022, Poland) is a six-part series made for Polish television, streaming on Netflix. It's a dramatization of the actual events of 1997 when flood waters threaten a large city, and officials decide to divert the waters into the countryside flooding farms and villages.
A noted hydrologist, recovering from addiction and separated from her daughter. Is called in to help advise the authorities regarding the rising waters. Older male scientists and political appointees refuse to accept her advice and opinions until it's too late.
Usual melodrama is thrown in, but the effects of the flood were real and over 100 people did die during the event. The Czech Republic and parts of Germany were also affected by the same catastrophe.
I was reminded of the series Chernobyl, as we see politicians and bureaucrats making decisions for their own self-interests.
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