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Water is essential to life. Its management, through everything from clay vessels to elaborate stone dams, is thus a key part of any human environment. Recently water has seeped, flooded and flowed into academic thought in astonishingly diverse ways. Historians, geographers, anthropologists, philosophers and others have examined human relations to it, the multiple ways of defining it, and how it underpins human and more-than-human ways of living and being.