Hydraulic City

Ac know ledg mentsThis research on Mumbai's water took me home to a world I did not know.Like many in Mumbai, I had for a long time lived in the city without needing to be conscious of the tremendous work of its social and material infrastructures.Through fieldwork, I learned of the extraordinary quotidian labor of employees of the city's hydraulic engineering department and those that live in the city's auto-constructed settlements, just to make water appear every day in city taps.And so it is with this more mundane book.Its appearance as a discrete thing conceals the generosity and work that has been invested in it by many others, just to make it appear in the world.As residents, friends, and experts of the…