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Water memory and moral ecologies in adaptive hydrosocial futures

Indigenous nature-cultural practices often embody sustained environmental wisdom but remain underused in contemporary climate adaptation planning. This paper investigates the role of cultural communication particularly Uli songs, rituals, proverbs, and local language practices in shaping water conservation behaviors amid changing rainfall patterns in Anambra State, Southeastern Nigeria, a construct I have categorized in this study as ‘water memory’. Employing a qualitative method through the critical analysis of ethnographic water knowledge in the community, the study examines how Uli communic…