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The attached six 2001 articles, based upon the topic of water amongst peasant societies on the island of Eivissa (Ibiza) in the Pitiusas Islands of the Balearic archipelago in the Spanish western Mediterranean, form part of this author's 48-part 'An Anthropological View' column in the Spanish-based weekly Engish-language newspaper, The Electronic LiveIbiza .The innovative editor, Gary Hardy, kindy permitted this author to regularly begin by looking at one of a number of local Eivissa [Ibiza] themes, and then expanding - 'going global' - from that. In this instance, on the topic of water, one begins by looking at surviving dance rituals around springs and wells on the island, the differences between 'live' and 'dead' water and the drying out of the island - aided and abetted by climate change, increasing population and the tourist misuse of water resources. After peeks at some other cultures, one then gets gradually into a critical look at the type of 'Development' promoted around the world by certain types of economic theory and by a number of the big international multilateral agencies..Sad to say, much of post-WW2 water politics seems to follow the theme as outlined in a 2001 complaint of a desert-dwelling Mexican: "Water flows uphill to money". Much recent history of water developments also seems sadly to focus around attempts by Big Water to privatise and control water surces and use worldwide, like oil, minerals, etc. One hopes that the UN 2023 Water Conference will help not only to conserve the planet's drinkable water resources and assist the spread of access to good water, but also increase protections for the maintenance of not only the water rights of indigenous/First Nations peoples, but also those of peasant and rural populations worlwide. Keep drinking your own water [if you have it and if you can]. Kirk.