Back in 2022 I was honoured to be invited by Giacomo Parrinello and Simone Neri Serneri to contribute to a roundtable, titled, ‘Rethinking the entangled history of water and power’, for the Italian journal, Contemporanea. Joining colleagues Debjani Bhattarcharyya, Corey Ross, David Pietz and Matthew Evenden, my piece reflected on the intersections of imperialism, technology and water. Check out the issue here.