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. I show how these civilizational projects constitute the climate of infrastructure. Staged on extant ecologies and polities, these durable forms of city making also make its climate; projects which not only continues to dispossess indigenous fishers, fish and ecologies, but also intensify chronic flooding in the city.