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It may also be a deadly relation. However, too often, it is easy to overlook the many complex relations that each of us has with water. With the movements of water through our bodies and environments, we find ourselves in fluid relationships with our many others - whether these be other humans, other forms of life (bacterial, vegetable, animal),  and other communities - both upstream and downstream.

This is a website for maps and stories about water. By sharing thoughts about local waters and their relations to the environmental health of communities and ecosystems, we may begin to find a way to map waters together. And, by mapping waters collectively we may better understand the places where we live, the environments that we share, and, therefore, our relationships with water and with each other.

You are very welcome to join this website and to contribute to its water mapping gallery. Although my individual research efforts focus on how to map the waters of the Iohná:wate' or Lachine Rapids in the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal, I hope, more broadly, that this project may learn from and encourage water mapping efforts elsewhere. Read more about this project.