Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.
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Introduction: embedded infrastructures -- "We got stuck in between" : unmapping the distribution network -- "The slum and building industry" : marketizing urban development -- "You can't stop development" : hydraulic shambles -- "It was like that from the beginning" : becoming a slum -- "No hydraulics are possible" : brokering water knowledge -- "Good doesn't mean you're honest" : corruption -- "If water comes it's because of politics" : power, authority, and hydraulic spectacle -- Conclusion: pipe politics -- Appendix: Department of Hydraulic Engineering.
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In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, politics is often about water.
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