Over the past decade or so, China has committed to providing equitable, available, improved and safe water resources in its cities, embedded in a considerable effort to achieve Ecological Civilisation and long-term sustainable development goals. In tandem, the mainstream concern of environmental and human geographers about sustainable water governance and hydropolitics in China has mainly focused on state, market, and large-scale water infrastructure projects. Yet, a limited understanding remains of how everyday infrastructures, practices, and governances shape uneven urban waterscapes and 'micropolitical ecology' (Horowitz 2008). To fill this lacunar, this conference paper attempts to mobilise the theoretical and empirical potential of everydayness as a sensitive lens for revealing and understanding critical urban water research in China. This study conducted qualitative fieldwork (ethnographic observations, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, secondary archival research) in Changsha, China to track the everyday realities of water among residents of several different settlements. In doing so it illustrates that 1) heterogeneous configurations of water infrastructures and practices demonstrate the differentiate arrangements and unequal allocation/distribution of water resources at the household/domestic level, 2) everyday encounter of water policies and regimes, technologies and social relations, strategic knowledge and experiences, shape the everyday water demand and practices, furthering mapping representations, agencies and participations of urban water governances, and 3) are closely intertwined with sociospatial differences (class, gender, rural-urban migrant status) to co-produce dynamics of power and authority in urban waterscapes. Drawing upon and contributing to urban political ecology and social practice theory, the research's findings unveil how materialities (water resources, infrastructures, and practices) and micropolitics (governances and policies) interact, intertwine, entangle, and mutually constitute within the everyday terrain. This relationship is internalised and normalised within a broader exclusion of the urban poor and marginalised groups, which further crystallises the complexities of the uneven hydrosocial geography.