How are extractive relationships to “land” made in a seasonal waterscape? The Little Rann of Kutch in Western India is a deltaic shallow lake during the Indian monsoon and a saline desert for the rest of the year. Fishworkers and artisanal salt-manufacturers who depend on this shifting, amphibious ecology, are being dispossessed by industrial-scale salt-manufacturers in a region that presently produces over 8% of the world’s salt. This talk follows legal proceedings against leases issued by the government to industrial salt-manufacturing companies who block waterways, build concrete infrastructure on creek-beds, destroy intertidal fishing grounds and mangroves, and disrupt the seasonality of the Little Rann. In a region that, notably, has never been surveyed or mapped by a land revenue administration in colonial or Independent India, I argue that these industrial leases, and their attendant legal, infrastructural and imaginative practices, make-believe “land” by using terraneous logics of fixity, enclosure and barrenness to unsee, disrupt and reorganize flows of water.