Introduction: Rural?urban water struggles: urbanizing hydrosocial territories and evolving connections, discourses and identities Lena Hommes, Rutgerd Boelens, Leila M. Harris and Gert Jan Veldwisch 1. Water crisis through the analytic of urban transformation: an analysis of Bangalore’s hydrosocial regimes Michael Goldman and Devika Narayan 2. The rural?urban equity nexus of Metro Manila’s water system Philamer C. Torio, Leila M. Harris and Leonora C. Angeles 3. Hydrosocial territories in the context of diverse and changing ruralities: the case of Cochabamba’s drinking water provision over time Paul Hoogendam 4. Colonizing rural waters: the politics of hydro-territorial transformation in the Guadalhorce Valley, Malaga, Spain Bibiana Duarte-Abadia and Rutgerd Boelens 5. The political construction and fixing of water overabundance: rural?urban flood-risk politics in coastal Ecuador Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas and Rutgerd Boelens 6. Upsetting the apple cart? Export fruit production, water pollution and social unrest in the Elgin Valley, South Africa Matthijs Wessels, Gert Jan Veldwisch, Katarzyna Kujawa and Brian Delcarme 7. Hydrosocial territories, agro-export and water scarcity: capitalist territorial transformations and water governance in Peru’s coastal valleys Gerardo Damonte and Rutgerd Boelens 8. Payment for ecosystem services in Lima’s watersheds: power and imaginaries in an urban-rural hydrosocial territory Sonja Bleeker and Jeroen Vos Conclusion: Evolving connections, discourses and identities in rural?urban water struggles Lena Hommes, Gert Jan Veldwisch, Leila M. Harris and Rutgerd Boelens