for their stimulating research, conversations and collaboration that nourished this work. We are grateful to Paul Farber and Meg Arenberg at the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and to the School of Habitat Studies Secretariat at TISS for their administrative support in hosting events and workshops in Philadelphia and Mumbai, respectively. Finally, the authors would like to thank Liza Weinstein, Malini Ranganathan and the anonymous reviewers of IJURR for substantive and helpful feedback and suggestions throughout the review process.

We offer our sincere thanks to Nikhil Anand and Lalitha Kamath for encouraging us and providing insightful comments. We also thank Amita Bhide and members of Pani Haq Samiti, Mumbai for providing their time, giving us critical input and clarifying a range of issues.