“…The first concerns the activities undertaken in the home or in the sphere of public life, analyzed by a substantial literature on care work (Mol, Moser & Pols, 2010;Guimarães & Hirata, 2020;Hirata & Debert, 2016;Bellacasa, 2017;Fernandes, Fonseca & Fietz, 2018). The second form of invizibilization relates to the ordinary work of maintaining life through water management in which women, once again, are responsible for leading what we call the frontline of this task (Laurie, 2011;Truelove, 2011Truelove, , 2019Lahiri-Dut, 2015a, 2015bAnand, 2017a;Centelhas, 2019;Pierobon, 2021). It is mostly black, poor and/ or migrant women who care for children, the elderly and sick people in their own homes, as well as in middle and upper-class households.…”