Academic paragraph The policies developed in Chile since 2005 have led to conflicts in which ontologies about water are faced. On the one hand, water rights markets have been providing corporeality to water as electricity and energy through hydropower infrastructure; and on the other hand, beyond and against electricity, relational ontologies are providing different understandings and actions about water flow energy, by mobilising different entities (e.g. rivers freedom, indigenous rights, tourism) in their defense.