Powai Lake

This guide to Powai Lake in Mumbai starts with what shares the water today, then rewinds to 1891, when the British dammed a tributary of the Mithi River hoping to solve Bombay's water shortage. It follows the lake's repeated failure to deliver clean drinking water despite a costly second engineering attempt in 1919, and the shift as anglers, then IIT Bombay's campus, then glass towers rose along its shores. Stand at the shoreline and look for shapes along the bank that aren't rocks.