By examining Tunisia's protracted 'water emergency' through the lens of uneven hydraulic stateness, or  the fragmented exercise of state authority over water access, infrastructure, and provisioning, this chapter traces how resource scarcity intersects with structural inequalities and regionally skewed (under)development. It does so through an examination of the daily labors of one smallholder farmer in the Cap Bon region. Drawing on ethnographic vignettes from her struggles with water (in)access, and situating these within the context of the national crisis, the chapter  shows how drought governance is lived, interpreted, and improvised by those on the margins of state capacity, while foregrounding  how axes of social differentiation spanning gender, geography, and class produce  highly heterogenous experiences of “hydraulic citizenship.” It concludes by arguing that Tunisia’s water emergency constitutes a political moment that renders visible the fractures of resource governance and the labors of reproduction amid infrastructural and previsioning retreat.