On Water showcases the range of disciplines and methodological approaches that are brought together at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Water has many different guises—as a resource it can be bottled, dammed, and polluted; as a natural hazard it terrorizes with floods and big freezes; becalmed, water can also serve as a mirror to show us how our understanding of the natural environment is formed. In this volume, nine scholars affiliated with the RCC present their research in the fields of history, philosophy, literary studies, geography, and cultural studies.