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The heat wave this summer, at the latest, has made the absence of water a socially acceptable issue of debate in European regions where otherwise little concern has been in place about the availability of water. Against the background of this topicality, this text will pursue the questions of "How is water actually known?" and "In what form can water be made the subject of quotidian as well as cultural anthropological knowledge?" Making Kirsten Hastrups "Waterworlds" project a starting point and based on current empirical findings, the text elaborates on the manifold heuristic potentials of existing work and discusses new perspectives for an anthropology of the present and the future that makes water its explicit subject.