Water in the Andes is a dual entity: matter and energy, terrestial and celestial, substance, and Cosmos. This thesis is a provocation to reimagine water infrastructures across the Andes as a collaboration of ancestral and modern forms of relating with Water. As an Andean descendant, my mother taught me that Water is a living being. A series of walks during the summer of 2023, visiting ancestral places, learning from Water nurturers, and participating in the water festival in the South of Peru allowed me to reconnect with my family knowledge. Marcela Machaca, a “Water Nurturer”, taught me that the Andean cosmology considers Yaku (Water in Qechua) to be a person. Yaku Mama (Mother Water) creates life in the Andes through a reciprocal nurturing relationship with the communities. In contrast, modern epistemologies frame Water as a resource managed through infrastructures that extract, st...