Although the urgent COVID-19 pandemic now garners almost all political attention, the more stealthily emerging crisis of climate change will, ultimately, have a more structural and encompassing impact and is, therefore, crucial to the outcome of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. Water is and will be a key factor in how societies will experience, and be forced to address, the impact of climate change. But this is more than a technological challenge. It will affect the social and cultural fabric of our societies. For this reason, we must engage in a values-driven dialogue regarding water issues in times of climate change. We must ask ourselves what is at stake and how we can tap into the richness of cultural and spiritual values to foster societal resilience.Obviously, this will require the cooperation of actors beyond the scope of just governments, the corporate world, and technological innovators. Water-related challenges in times of climate change involve responses from environmental and climate scientists, scholars of religion and culture, social scientists, local and national governments and international organisations, financial corporations, technological business, NGOs, and religious and worldview communities.