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Watson reminds the reader of the essentiality of water and its centrality to human life. Water is not only needed for basic survival in drinking and cooking, for cleanliness and hygiene, but, she argues, it can exact power over human life and wellbeing in cases of flooding or natural disasters. Critical to urban theory, however, is its capacity as a site to assemble publics, to expose differences and inequalities and to transgress boundaries of private/public, sex/gender, race/ethnicity and social class amongst others. This book aims to demonstrate how water can be coproductive in the assemblage of humans, non-humans, objects and materialities in urban spaces; how it can construct urban spaces and refract urban and cultural structures. Watson demonstrates this argument across nine largely freestanding chapters, with a predominant focus on London and the UK plus examples from across the globe. Water and the …