Acknowledgements

At Goa Water Stories, we express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who supported and contributed to this transformative community project on water, ecology and climate change. Your guidance, collaboration and encouragement have been pivotal in shaping these efforts and bringing our vision to life. This project would not have been possible without the collective wisdom, creativity, and dedication of so many individuals and organisations.

We are deeply thankful to our institutional partners: the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at Goa Institute of Management (CPPG-GIM), the Manohar Parrikar School of Law, Governance and Public Policy at Goa University (MPSLGPP-GU), the Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts (SGCA), and the Living Waters Museum (LWM). Their belief in the project, generous support, and sharing of infrastructure, resources, and logistical assistance were essential to the realisation of Goa Water Stories.

At CPPG-GIM, we extend our gratitude to Professor Sebastian Morris for his support and presence, Dr Kingshuk Sarkar for his invaluable feedback and recommendations, and Bernice de Souza and Christal Ferrao for their seamless management of the project's logistical needs.

At GU, we thank Professor Rajendra Gad, Dr Prakash Parienkar, Dr Arvind Haldankar, Dr Chanda Berde, Professor Ganesha Somayaji, Ms Sangeeta Tate, and Ms Sneha Ghadi for their mentorship and support for the fellows. Special thanks to Dr Sulochana Pednekar for her diligent logistical management, mentoring, and active involvement during field visits and discussions.

At SGCA, we are grateful to Isheta Salgaocar, Leandré D’Souza, Nilima Kamat, Justina Maria Costa, and Abigail D’souza for their generous sharing of resources, thoughtful feedback, and facilitation with the fellows.

At LWM, we owe thanks to Dr Sara Ahmed for her unwavering generosity and support in making Goa Water Stories a reality, and to Sukrit Sen and Uttara Valluri for their valuable media assistance.

We deeply appreciate Hyacinth Pinto and Nirmal Kulkarni, who served as independent jury members, attended all presentations, and shared their invaluable expertise as mentors to the fellows.

Our thanks extend to the Mhadei Research Centre and Bookworm Trust for facilitating workshops, and site visits, and offering their unwavering support. Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar for conducting the fellows workshop and Professor Rahul Tripathi and Vince Costa deserve our gratitude for their assistance in making the workshops possible.

Special thanks to Rhea D'Souza for her remarkable graphic design work and behind-the-scenes contributions and to Phoebe Pereira, Saachi D'Souza and Hagen DeSa for their inputs, facilitation, program design, and translations. We thank Trusha and her team for the design work of this immersive and interactive web experience.

We are grateful to Flurina Badel, Monica Ursina Jaeger, Rita Zurbrügg, Crisologo Furtado, Damian Christinger, Jérémie Sarbach, Pantaleao Fernandes, Uriel Orlow and Vinay Kamat for generously sharing their expertise and materials with fellows. Thank you Ann Mbuti and Adrian Notz for your engagement in the field, feedback, insights and support. A big heartfelt thanks to Sophie Vögele and Julia Reichert, for your support and love while completing this project. 

We fondly remember Natu, whose presence and contributions we deeply miss.

Finally, we thank all the contributors, researchers, and artists who have worked tirelessly over the past year to present these 18 powerful stories and projects. Your dedication is the heart of Goa Water Stories.

- for Goa Water Stories, Wenceslaus Mendes