States of water / Filippo Menga and Erik Swyngedouw -- The ocean bountiful? : de-salination, de-politicisation, and binational water governance on the Colorado River / Joe Williams -- Piercing the Pyrenees, connecting Catalonia to Europe : the ascendancy and dismissal of the Rhône Water Transfer Project (1994-2016) / Santiago Gorostiza, Hug March and David Saurí -- Death by certainty : the Vinça Dam, the French state, and the changing social relations of irrigation the Têt basin of the eastern French Pyrénées / Jamie Linton and Etienne Delay -- Big projects, strong states? : large scale investments in irrigation and state formation in the Beles Valley, Ethiopia / Emanuele Fantini, Tesfaye Muluneh and Hermen Smit -- Water nationalism in Egypt : state-building, nation-making and Nile hydro-politics / Ramy Hanna and Jeremy Allouche -- Troubled waters of hegemony : consent and contestation in Turkey's hydropower landscapes / Bengi Akbulut, Murat Arsel and Fikret Adaman -- "The most dam-dense country in Europe" : ethnic conflict and the contradictions of statehood in Cyprus / Panayiota Pyla and Petros Phokaides -- Counter-infrastructure as resistance in the hydrosocial territory of the occupied Golan Heights / Muna Dajani and Michael Mason -- Development initiatives and transboundary water politics in the Talas waterscape (Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan) : towards the conflicting borderlands hydrosocial cycle / Andrea Zinzani -- Speculation and seismicity : reconfiguring the hydropower future in post-earthquake Nepal / Austin Lord -- Irrigational illusions, national delusions and idealised constructions of water, agriculture and society in Southeast Asia : the case of Thailand / David J.H. Blake -- Building a dam for China in the Three Gorges region, 1919-1971 / Covell F. Meyskens