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Synopsis Fluid Bonds makes gender visible in the various ways water is dealt with, and questions how these ways affect gender and how gender affects the views on water. The connections between gender and water are multifaceted, contingent and heterogeneous. Through a rich offering of case studies, it identifies the multiple and changing relationships between the two, and notes some commonalities whilst gendering the use and management of water. The streams of hydrofeminisms converging in Fluid Bonds create a common terrain for the scholars and experts from the North and the South representing a wide range of methodological approaches, backgrounds and understandings, from where to reappraise water as a gendered substance. Collectively, the contributors consider the problematic fluidity and indefinite categories of gender and water, tracing the bonds as well as drawing out some differences, focusing on the gendered nature of water in life, of which women and men, at all times, constitute a part. The book will be of immediate interest to academics, development planners, administrators, educators, activists and water experts.