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020 _a9780822359692
082 _a363.610954792
_bBJO
100 _aBjorkman, Lisa
245 _aPipe politics, contested waters : embedded infrastructures of millennial Mumbai
260 _bDuke University Press,
_c2015
_aDurham :
300 _axi, 281 p. ;
_bill.,
_c23 cm
365 _b26.95
_cUSD
_d78.20
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aIn 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.
650 _aWater-supply
650 _aWaterworks
650 _aInfrastructure, Economics
650 _aPolitics and government
650 _aIndia, Mumbai
650 _aAntiprivatization protests
650 _aBhatsa dam projects
650 _a Marketization
650 _a Neoliberalism
650 _a Public-private Infrastructure Advisory
650 _aSlum areas
650 _aTransferable development rights (TDR)
650 _aVision Mumbai report
650 _aWater billing
650 _aWater mafias
650 _a Urban water supply
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