Transforming Our Bodies of Water into Fluid Resistance Movements

Even while in constant motion, water is also a planetary archive of meaning and matter. To drink a glass of water is to ingest the ghosts of bodies that haunt that water. When “nature calls” some time later, we return to the cistern and the sea not only our antidepressants, our chemical estrogens, or our more commonplace excretions, but also the meanings that permeate those materialities: disposable culture, medicalized problem-solving, ecological disconnect.
— Astrida Neimanis, “Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water”

Thirst unites us with the world and with others, vitally dramatizing all involved. It makes us physically experience what the victims of desertification and climate change feel. It makes us understand how this actual solidarity could extend into a solidarity initiative. 
— Jean-Philippe Pierron, La poétique de l’eau. Pour une nouvelle écologie

To achieve a true cosmopolitanism of water, we must first realize that rather than needing new concepts, we have a greater need to reimagine our ethical relationships to the environment.
— Sylvie Paquerot, Frédéric Julien, and Gabriel Blouin Genest, L’eau en commun. De ressource naturelle à chose cosmopolitique

We now face a global water crisis. Warning signs are flashing everywhere about the increased desertification of the Earth, the industrial pollution of water resources, and the over-
exploitation of aquifers. A UN report from 2021 indicates that by 2025 almost two thirds of the world’s population will face water shortages. Yet in Canada, water still flows freely down faucets and hoses without our fully realizing its scarcity. We don’t know what thirst is.¹ 1 - Most of us, I should say, since many Indigenous communities in Canada don’t always have access to running water.