ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that water is objectified made into an object as a life giving property rather than bio-objectified. It explores the boundaries of bio-objects. Bio-objectification processes incorporate two key features absent in the case of water: they embody living objects and debates and contestations about life and living objects. The relation between water and health was subject to debate how bad is the pollution, is it miasma or water that carries diseases, what would be the effects of drinking sewage-polluted water and scientists could not provide the solution. Water was objectified made into an object as a life giving property in relation to general population and health concerns. Manufactured water suggests a border crossing between natural and artificial as well as bodily boundaries and may shift or upset such boundaries. The objectification of water became framed as a natural process: manufactured water is more natural and pure than the water out there. Water hardly surfaces in molecular biology.
