ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a series of experiences in the village of San Clemente, where families provocatively transformed "a desert into an oasis". While documentation of this activity addresses what happened, in terms of the claimed source of ideas, funding, tubes, and sprinklers, it does not satisfactorily explore how such socio-material change came to be. The production of food in arid and semi-arid regions is not simply the sum of resources, but rather it is born from an endless array of human-nonhuman relations. The chapter focuses on the underlying socio-biological-material relationships that ultimately catalyze the creativities and potentialities of water for food. It examines how affects underlie people's struggle for water in arid and semi-arid farming environments, such as San Clemente. The chapter explains how the materialities around water provisioning are relationally bounded to everyday affective struggles in mobilizing water for food production.
