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Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly controversial in direct proportion to its scarcity, demand, neglect, and commodification. There is no place on the planet where water is not, or will not be, of critical concern.Signs of Water brings together scholars and experts from five continents in an interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical approaches, social and political issues, and anthropogenic hazards surrounding water in the twenty-first century. From the kitchen taps of Detroit, Michigan to the water-harvesting infrastructure of Tokyo, from the Upper Xingu Basin of Brazil to the Sunda Deep of the Java Trench, these essays flow through time and place to uncover the many issues surrounding water today.Asking key theoretical questions, exposing threats to vital water systems, and proposing paths forward, Signs of Water brims with histories, ontologies, and political struggles. Bringing together local experiences to tell a global story, it centers water as history, as politics, and as a human right.

Water. --- Water conservation. --- Environmental protection. --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Conservation of water --- Water --- Conservation of natural resources --- Hydrology --- Conservation --- Detroit. --- climate security. --- community based natural resource management. --- cultural diversity. --- environmental degradation. --- environmental justice. --- future of water. --- global water systems. --- human rights. --- indigenous water access. --- lakes. --- oceans. --- plant healing. --- politics of water. --- ponds. --- public policy. --- race and water. --- rain. --- rivers. --- social inequality. --- water access. --- water law. --- water policy. --- water pollution. --- water rights. --- water security. --- water systems.