Decisions about water, climate adaptation, and environmental management are most often shaped by certain ways of knowing. These dominant ways of knowing are often rooted in Eurocentric knowledge, technocratic models, and policy frameworks promoted as universal. We acknowledge that water is not experienced universally. It is lived, storied, and governed through diverse relationships, languages, customs, values, and practices.
In this episode, we explore how colonial legacies, development paradigms, and hierarchies of expertise have privileged some forms of water knowledge while marginalizing others. What does it mean to unlearn dominant understanding and practice and make space for plural, contextualized, and relational ways of knowing water?
Speakers:
- Terence Ching
- Shiba Kurian
- Cristal Ange
This online conversation took place on 16 December 2025.
