Water Witch is a 1982 science fiction novel by Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice.

On the desert planet of Mahali, political power is held by a hereditary line of water witches who can sense and control water.

A young con artist girl named Deza tries to impersonate a water witch, helped by the spirit of her recently dead conman father, who now resides in a small animal called a mbuzi.

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