This article was originally presented at the “Multidisciplinary Ethnographies of Power in Cross-Border Sustainable Development and Environmental Security Cases” workshop, sponsored by the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC), at the University of Helsinki, Finland (6–7 October 2016). It was subsequently presented at the 17th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management, Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC), Botswana (26–28 October 2016).