The everyday is an essential starting point from which to consider wider dynamics of social and environmental justice, dynamics of urban and agrarian change, and citizenship and belonging in China. We will overview theoretical and empirical insights from several recent publications and in-progress projects from the University of Manchester. Informed by social practice theories, urban political ecology, and feminist theory from within and outside of the Chinese context, we will demonstrate how research on everyday life and the lived experience is an essential entry point for geographies of water and interconnecting environmental challenges in China. Specifically we will: overview the permeable entanglements of water and energy with place, protest and urban change (Larrington-Spencer, Browne & Petrova, 2021); explore how environmental degradation drives new lifestyle mobilities (Liu & Browne, 2022) and how these new tourist infrastructures and practices ‘make’ water demand in a Chinese hot spring town (Liu et al. 2022a, 2022b); reveal the specific gendered and relational dimensions of water and energy practices in Chinese homes (Larrington-Spencer, Browne & Petrova, in review); and explore gendered experiences of living with environmental pollution and change in Chinese Cities (Liu, Larrington-Spencer, Browne & Petrova, in preparation). Finally, we briefly overview our recent theorisations around ‘hygienic citizenship’ arguing that practices of water-sanitation-waste are integral to citizenship and belonging in Chinese cities (Dongyang, Browne, Petrova, Iossifova, in preparation). Building on University of Manchester's strategic partnership with the University of Melbourne - that at its heart shares a common agenda to advance new everyday environmental geographies of China (Liu, Zhen, Rogers & Browne, under review) - we conclude with an invite to collectively build with us these (new) networks of support, solidarity and transnational collaboration