ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book begins by articulating how the collection responds to a call for starting from a fundamentally different analytical position in order to do research on human–water relations. It attempts to bring other 'voices' to the fore that would not ordinarily be a part of water resources policy or management, through adopting a number of creative 'tactics' and relations with watery others. The book rehearses some potential pitfalls of creative approaches and share learnings from practitioners and academics in this collection, also thinking about where these experimental 'tributaries' might meander. It highlights the 'subtle energies' of different forms of water, such as waves and rivers. The book provides avenues away from more scientific and technical literatures that position the 'knower' as being on the outside of their environment and create a rationalising distance between them.
