By Design Masters Thesis exploring how the design, and desires, of scientific irrigation produced vast agricultural space within the British Occupation of the Punjab (modern- day India, Pakistan and Kashmir). The project moved between the archival substrate - the documents and papers that produced engineering interventions - and the geologic substrata to show how contemporary environmental harm is propagated by historic colonial infrastructure and now-disproven attitudes towards geology and water management. This research was used to investigate the Zira Ethanol plant polution, an ongoing site of protest within the Indian state of Punjab.

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