Geography 595

Gandy video on Mumbai’s water supply December 8, 2008

The following just came through on one of my food listserv’s. Rather timely.

December 7, 2008

Resource: Film “Liquid City” – on water in Mumbai city

(x-post H-Water)
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From: Matthew Gandy

“Liquid city”(30 minutes; English, Hindi and Marathi with English
subtitles)

Directed and produced by Matthew Gandy

The tortuous flow of water through Mumbai presents one of the most
striking indicators of persistent social inequalities within the
globalizing metropolis. The documentary film /Liquid City/ explores the
complexity of water politics in Mumbai ranging from the engineering
challenge of transferring nearly 3,000 million litres of water a day to
the city from the jungles, lakes and mountains of the state of
Maharashtra to debates over flooding, privatization and social
conflict.

The film is based on a unique collaboration between academics and film
makers based in London and Mumbai and combines in-depth interviews with
activists, engineers, local residents and other voices to paint a unique
picture of this vibrant and fast changing city.

Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography at University College London and
Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. His research focuses on urban
infrastructure and landscape with recent work in India, Nigeria and the
USA. His publications include /Concrete and clay: reworking nature in
New York City /(MIT Press, 2002) and “Learning from Lagos” in /New Left
Review/ (2005).

The film was developed in collaboration with PUKAR and was funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The film is available from the UCL Urban Laboratory, Department of
Geography University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab

Enquiries to natalie.warner@ucl.ac.uk