Abstract
This article deals with the production of water science and its practical use in water management in France between 1960 and 2000, first at national scale, and then focusing on the Rhône and the Seine river basins. It uses the hydrosocial cycle concept to account for the way in which the course of water and that of human affairs were intertwined. It provides examples of co-production of water science and social order in specific places where scientists contributed to redefining what water was and how it should be managed – a practice which had longstanding effects on those waterscapes. It shows how categorisation played an important role in this process. Moreover, it argues that waterscapes also shaped science, and not just exclusively the other way round, because waterscapes offered research opportunities that differed according to disciplines.
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