Brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is key to building peace and good relationships with each other and the planet. Explores the key roles that culture, arts, and the humanities play in supporting healthy, water-based ecology.

Table of Contents

Introduction:  Re-storying Waters, Re-storying Relations /  Rita Wong and Dorothy Christian

Part I: Contexts for Knowing and Unknowing Water

1. Planetary Distress Signals / Alanna Mitchell

2. Water / Lee Maracle

3. Interweaving Water: The Incremental Transformation of Sovereign Knowledge into Collaborative Knowledge / Michael D. Blackstock

4. Water and Knowledge / Astrida Neimanis

5. Excerpts from "a child's fable" / Baco Ohama 

Part II: Water Testimonies: Witness, Worry, and Work

6. Water: The First Foundation of Life / Mona Polacca 

7. From Our Homelands to the Tar Sands / Melina Laboucan Massimo 

8. Keepers of the Water: Nishnaabe-kwewag Speaking for the Water / Renee Elizabeth Mzinegiizhigo-kwe Bedard 

9. Water Walk Pedagogy / Violet Caibaiosai

10. A Response to Pascua Lama / Cecilia Vicuna 

Part III: Shared Ethical and Embodied Practices

11. Moving with Water: Relationship and Responsibilities / Alannah Young Leon and Denise Marie Nadeau 

12. Bodies of Water: Meaning in Movement / Seonagh Odhiambo Horne

13. Upstream: A Conversation with Water / Cathy Stubington

14. Ice Receding, Books Reseeding / Basia Irland 

15. Tsunami Chant / Wang Ping 

Part IV: A Respectful Co-existence in Common: Water Perspectives

16. Listening to the Elders at the Keepers of the Water Gathering /Radha D'Souza 

17. Coastal Waters in Distress from Excessive Nutrients / Paul J. Harrison 

18. Bodies of Water: Asian Canadians In/Action with Water /Janey Lew

19. Permeable Toronto: A Hydro-Eutopia / Janine MacLeod 

20. Saturate/Dissolve: Water for Itself, Un-Settler Responsibilities, and Radical Humility / Larissa Lai 

21. Bring Me Back / Janet Rogers