"In this talk I draw attention to the ways that indigenous Koli fishers in Mumbai read climate change as the outcome of a centuries long process of intervening in, and “improving” the city with the infrastructures of desiccation. Focusing on two landfill projects built a century apart, I argue that these civilizational projects constitute the climate of infrastructure– dispossessing developments that are saturated with liberal aesthetics, but nevertheless made beyond the scope of liberal laws, plans and practices.  Staged on extant ecologies and polities, these durable forms of city making also make its climate; one which not only continues to dispossess indigenous fishers, fish and ecologies, but also intensifies chronic flooding in the city."