Titlebook: Hydrology and Its Discontents; Contemplations on th John T. Van Stan II,Jack Simmons Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author

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,Limits in Language: Which “Water” Do You Mean?,ies of aquatic and terrestrial life. Water was not merely a physical entity but a dynamic, life-sustaining element that was experienced viscerally. However, with the advent of written language, we now rarely read water in its natural form. This intimate connection with the “language” of water embodi

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Hydrology by the Numbers and for the Numbers,poses multiple difficulties, e.g.: complex water phenomena are hard to predict, and they are difficult to communicate effectively and efficiently. Thus, we use reductionism to simplify the complex phenomena we encounter into manageable ideas. When done well, it overcomes these difficulties (and many

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Are Hydrologists Wading Through Ideas, Instead of Water?, concepts and ideas (often called the “ideal” or “metaphysical” realm). In using models to estimate or predict water-related phenomena, water scientists, decision-makers, stakeholders, etc., wade into this ideal realm. It is crucial to recognize that these models are idealized representations of wat

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,An “Umbrella Perspective” of Water: The Hermeneutics of Hydrology,g that view. A “view of water” can come in many forms: empirical measurements, model outputs, an intuition or thought, or a personal observation. We piece together each of these views of water, what Hans-Georg Gadamer called “finite presentations,” to form and test the theory. But we must occasional

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When Water Bows to Market Demands, So May Its Science,ated as the “water–diamond paradox” by Adam Smith, and partially explored by Karl Marx at the start of his critique of political economy. Humanity, the self-proclaimed “calculating animal,” has been setting values, measuring, and determining prices for millennia. Yet, one might ask without seeming a

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