Deborah Wardle teaches environmental literature and writing RMIT and Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is a researcher, with numerous projects completed, including with the Office of Indigenous Education and Engagement at RMIT University and the 'Groundwater Narratives' project with Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at Melbourne University. She has had stories and peer-reviewed articles published in Australian and international journals including Meanjin, Overland, The Big Issue, Meniscus, Mosaic (Canada), Fusion, Swamphen (ASLEC-ANZ), and Animal Studies Journal.

1. The Water Cycle: Introduction 2. The Water Table: Ways of Knowing and Not Knowing Groundwater in the Anthropocene 3. Springs and Seeps: Storying With 4. Hydrogeology: Groundwater Narratives and Hydrogeology 5. Porosity: Place and New Nature Writing 6. Permeability: Affect 7. Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems: Literary Activism