Las grandes aguas (English title: The great waters) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Sotomayor for Televisa in 1989.

[1] Gonzalo Vega and Alma Muriel starred the protagonists, while José Carlos Ruiz starred as main antagonist.

Adaptation of the novel by Luis Spota, which is a testimony to the brutality of man against the life, nature, and destiny.

The story begins when Roberto Rivas, an ambitious engineer, is commissioned to build a large dam in a place away from civilization, a small community in which among its people arises only incomprehension, hatred, resentment, passions and betrayals.

Here also find wood, the wife of Robert, a woman deeply unhappy and eager to find happiness.