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"This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial, and contemporary South Asia from the 16th century to the present. Bringing together contributions by art and architecture historians, artists, architects, geographers, maritime historians, and environmental activists from India, Europe, and the United States, the volume situates water in an expansive relational domain. It covers disciplines as diverse as literary studies, environmental humanities, sustainable design, urban planning, and media studies. The chapters explore the ways in which material cultures of water generate technological and aesthetic acts of envisioning geographies and make an intervention within political, developmental, and cultural discourses. A critical interjection in the sociologies of water in the subcontinent, the book brings art history into conversation with current debates on climate change, and examines the artistic, architectural, engineering, religious, scientific, and environmental facets"--

Water and civilization --- Water --- Bodies of water --- Material culture --- Visual communication --- Water in art --- Art, South Asian --- Architecture --- History. --- Social aspects --- South Asia --- Civilization. --- Environmental conditions

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Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. For the last 200 years, New York City has obtained water through a network of nineteen reservoirs and controlled lakes, some as far as 125-miles away. Engineering this water system required the demolition of rural communities, removal of cemeteries, and rerouting of roadways and waterways. The ruination is ongoing. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one place to another. At best, they redefine communities. At worst, they erase them.

Municipal water supply --- Urban watersheds --- Reservoirs --- Watershed management --- Urbanized watersheds --- Watersheds --- Cities and towns --- Urban water --- Water, Municipal --- Water, Urban --- Municipal engineering --- Water-supply --- Watershed development --- Ecosystem management --- Artificial lakes --- Lakes, Artificial --- Lakes, Man-made --- Man-made lakes --- Tanks (Reservoirs) --- Bodies of water --- Hydraulic structures --- History. --- Social aspects --- Management --- Archaeology, History (General), Political and Economic Anthropology.