The Water Commons Archives brings together histories and critical spatial practices of shared water basins in the Eastern Mediterranean into an open-access collection on the sociopolitical and cultural dimensions of water.

This endeavour works against the notions of borders, and critically examines points in history where the border was formed or broken on river systems,, drawn onto Syria's watersheds by Mandate and state formation. WCA organises its material by watershed instead, restoring the connections between ecosystems that border-making severed.

This is also an account of understanding power dynamics on shared water resources. WCA traces how extraction, partition, and consolidation of built environments reordered water rights and access across the region, and invites scholars and practitioners to treat the water basin as a unit of historical and spatial analysis.

This endeavour time period extends from the to the present.