An increasing number of world regions are being affected by changing climatic conditions that range from extreme eventsExtreme events to erratic variabilities in climatic parameters. WaterWater is an extremely crucial domain where such changes are explicitly experienced at all spatial scales. Such experiences are distinctly gendered. The patriarchal gender roleGender roles stereotypes are reproduced within the waterscapes, causing men and womenWomen to have different material and emotional experiences surrounding waterWater. Located within this theoretical understanding, the present paper explores how the relationship between genderGender and waterWater is not only a matter of physical experiences surrounding fetching for domestic and other purposes but also shaped by distinct emotional responses. That said, the specific objectives of the paper are: first, to explore the perceptions of the womenWomen and men regarding the changes in climatic conditions in the study region; second, to understand how changing waterscape is differently experienced by womenWomen and men—both in terms of material realities as well as embodied emotions. Drawing on qualitative data collected through focus group discussions, key informant interviews and non-participant observation in the district of Bankura in Eastern IndiaIndia, this study argues that resource management practices, such as those surrounding waterWater, are actively constituted and negotiated through embodiments, affect and emotions. Therefore, such practices and processes must not only be limited to exploring material challenges but also embodied emotions mediated through bodies, spaces and places.