The volume is based on the necessity of an ecologically oriented culture of water, given the increasing scarcity of clean water or the destructive power of water masses as a result of climate change. The essays deal with concepts of urban water supply, questions of water law, the renaturalization of polluted waters and alternative models of integrating water into landscape art. Other contributions are devoted to literary representations that seek to break up the hierarchically ordered dualism, according to which nature was understood as the other of reason and water as the hostile element or element to be conquered. Finally, texts by women authors who bring the idea of ​​water as a female element into the discussion about how to deal appropriately with the topic are analyzed.