... The new arenas of contestation that Mumbai’s water infrastructures animate reveal the illusory and precarious nature of the project to remake Mumbai as a world-class city. These dynamics, described as “pipe politics,” gesture instead toward the highly contested futures of the actually existing...

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... The introduction sets up the puzzle animating the book: With no shortage of financial or material resources, how might Mumbai’s fitful taps be made sense of? The introduction critically engages theoretical debates among urban geographers, political economists, and culturalist critics about...

... The introduction urges attention to the ordinary practices through which settlements have been constructed in Mumbai. Focusing on the process through which a resident finds a way to repair her water pipe, this chapter suggests that Mumbai’s water infrastructure is a living, breathing, leaking...

... This chapter focuses on the difficulties of measuring leakage in water infrastructures. With leakage reduction essential to transforming water infrastructures from intermittent to 24/7 water systems, World Bank consultants in Mumbai worked hard to apprehend and arrest water leakage in the city...