This paper examines the ways in which knowledge about water has conventionally been generated by modern water scientists and illuminates how this approach leaves out the diverse -ways of knowing‖ water and how scientism creates a trap of concrete evidential certainty. Through the example of a failed conversation, it questions the basic epistemological underpinnings of understanding water in modern scientific inquiries-the means of knowing rivers, and how they conflict with feminist

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... s and fail to account for the -knowledge others‖ and -others' knowledge‖. The paper concludes with observations on why we need new epistemologies of water in the Anthropocene.