In the last decade, the transformation of the water-energy nexus in Turkey maps onto worldwide developments in energy production and environmental governance. The changes in these two domains interact with each other in ways that complicate how to understand, use and fight for water. This chapter sheds light on the limits as well as the possibilities of this moment of dual crisis and discusses the ruptures as well as the continuities it sustains. First, it discusses what the crisis of modern water governance entails as well as its relevance for the emergence of small-size hydropower plants (SHPs). Then the chapter introduces concepts of scarcity, abundance in renewable sources and waste. Next, it focuses on the scarcity/abundance relation surrounding SHPs projects, pointing out how certain scarcities call for patriotic responses and citizen responsibility. Finally, the chapter explores how changing state-market relations, as well as increased reliance on entrepreneurialism and construction as means of development, bear upon water governance.