Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Preface xvii
6. Introduction
7. Fixing the Flow: The Things We Make of Water 3
8. Relational Dialectics: Putting Things in Fluid Terms 24
9. The History of Modern Water
10. Intimations of Modern Water 47
11. From Premodern Waters to Modern Water 73
12. The Hydrologic Cycle(s): Scientific and Sacred 105
13. The Hortonian Hydrologic Cycle 126
14. Reading the Resource: Modern Water, the Hydrologic Cycle, and the State 148
15. Culmination: Global Water 162
16. The Constitutional Crisis of Modern Water
17. The Constitution of Modern Water 175
18. Modern Water in Crisis 191
19. Sustaining Modern Water: The New “Global Water Regime” 212
20. Conclusion: What Becomes of Water
21. Hydrolectics 223
22. Notes 248
23. Bibliography 295
24. Index 324