Seema Kulkarni is a a feminist activist-scholar from Maharashtra, India. The focus of her work is on redressing structural inequities in water access, through a combination of scholarly analysis and practical action. She is one of the founding members of the Society for Promoting Participative Eco-system Management (SOPPECOM), and a National Facilitation Team Member of Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch (MAKAAM), the Forum for Women Farmers’ Rights. Seema is an enormous source of inspiration for feminist water scholars and activists because of her remarkable ability to use feminist critique of water-development-as-usual not just to expose what is wrong, but also to engage in sustained collaborations with those who experience the effects of water injustices. In doing this, Seema also shows that women’s strategies to care for water can provide important lessons for knowing and managing water otherwise – more sustainably and equitably.