Table of Contents

Foreword: Making Waves / Graeme Wynn

Preface

Part 1: Introduction

1 Fixing the Flow: The Things We Make of Water

2 Relational Dialectics: Putting Things in Fluid Terms

Part 2: The History of Modern Water

3 Intimations of Modern Water

4 From Premodern Waters to Modern Water

5 The Hydrologic Cycle(s): Scientific and Sacred

6 The Hortonian Hydrologic Cycle

7 Reading the Resource: Modern Water, the Hydrologic Cycle, and the Stat

8 Culmination: Global Water

Part 3: The Constitutional Crisis of Modern Water

9 The Constitution of Modern Water

10 Modern Water in Crisis

11 Sustaining Modern Water: The New “Global Water Regime”

Part 4: Conclusion: What Becomes of Water

12 Hydrolectics

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

The history of the modern idea of water – an idea whose consequences have helped produce a global crisis.

About the Author

Jamie Linton is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Queen’s University.

Reviews

The publication of Jamie Linton’s superb monograph, What is Water?, provides an opportunity to consider the development of relational and dialectical thought within geography and especially how this has developed around the subject of water.
*The Geographical Journal*

Linton’s message needs to be taken seriously by anyone for whom water is something more than so many molecules of H2O … it is a message that should be incorporated into both introductory and advanced courses in a number of disciplines dealing not only with water but with all natural resources.
*Critical Policy Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4*

Linton presents the issues in impressive breadth and depth, and tells a compelling story. Recommended.
*I.D. Sasowsky, University of Akron*

Jamie Linton’s excellent analysis fills a gap in the understanding of our conceptions of water. His critiques of the water crisis and the new paradigm of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) are simply brilliant and long overdue. The book is easy to read for an audience new to the literature on water from a social science perspective.
*Social & Cultural Geography*