*Goa Water Stories* *https://goawaterstories.livingwatersmuseum.org* <https://goawaterstories.livingwatersmuseum.org/>
Goa Water Stories is an online immersive and interactive digital web archive of narratives of water. Goa Water Stories engages and intersects with the local and indigenous communities through 18 interactive and immersive story-projects developed by over 30 young individuals. These interdisciplinary multimedia projects present hyperlocal narratives, amplifying voices from the ground. Rooted in lived experience, these narratives are closely linked to local flora, fauna and livelihood practices to construct a discourse centred around water, ecology and the impact of climate change. *PROCESS* *Goa Water Stories* <https://goawaterstories.livingwatersmuseum.org/> commenced in March 2023 through an ‘Open Call’ for a small grant, offered as a fellowship, to support research on water, ecology, climate change, and its impact on communities in Goa. The fellowship grant, augmented by a mentoring and skill-sharing process, facilitated advocacy by researchers and field practitioners, to provide a policy lens to understand concerns related to water and climate change, their effects on livelihoods and the environment and conservation efforts. The initiative focuses on creating media-rich multimedia content – encompassing text, images, audio, and video. These stories are thematically linked to the Western Ghats, the monsoon water cycle and watershed, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, tanks, wells, the khazan lands, and the coastal ecosystem. The program fosters dialogue through visual storytelling towards building an online interactive archive, serving as a platform that brings together diverse stakeholders, including institutions, students, researchers, academics, writers, artists and experts. This collaborative effort facilitates critical engagement with water-related issues through workshops, colloquia and presentations in libraries, colleges, universities, museums and galleries. The participants developed a shared vocabulary and subjectivity through these activities, initiating hyperlocal and public discourse on water heritage. This multi-dimensional and inclusive approach integrates research, data visualisation, storytelling, and digital tools. All content – including videos, images, illustrations, photographs and written materials – developed by the cohort are under Creative Commons. These digital objects are metadata-tagged, geo-tagged, and translated into English, with further auto-translation enabled for additional languages via web-based software. The resulting digital archive is now community-curated as an interactive and interconnected storytelling platform – ‘*Goa Water Stories* <https://goawaterstories.livingwatersmuseum.org/>’ – hosted by the Living Waters Museum. Through this online archive, users can engage with multi-narrative storytelling, explore and learn from these experiences, and connect with the environment and communities on the ground. I look forward to hearing from you and the possibilities of a dialogue and an extended conversation this project may evoke. Thanking you wency +919811424363
