In Replumbing the City, Sayd Randle produces an intriguing ethnography about how the city of Los Angeles is rethinking and reworking its water management system in response to drought and climate change. The book starts by examining how water planners and engineers with the L.A. Department of Water and Power (LADWP) have been focused on ensuring the "reliability" of water provision and how this has led them to favor water recycling efforts. But the LADWP's focus on reliability also leads them to stress the value of maintaining a diverse portfolio of water resources, which is in tension with the efforts of others to "relocalize" L.A.'s water usage. Randle then describes the lively politics of "greywater," especially the tensions between a more centralized vision of recycling and a more distributed household model. The book then shifts from a focus on water reuse to an examination of the issues swirling around the idea of recharge, where stormwater is used to recharge groundwater. She investigates the LADWP's efforts to develop new recharge grounds and the efforts of environmental activists to encourage smaller-scale green infrastructure that increases water infiltration. Efforts to develop distributed recharge systems prove particularly challenging and Randle's ethnographic approach proves its worth here in helping us to understand the hurdles to advancing such efforts. She describes the "ecosystem duties" required of local citizens who sign up for local recharge projects and raises the wider issue of how conceptions of ecosystem services and nature-based solutions can impose various forms of maintenance labor on citizens. In sum, Replumbing the City usefully explores the tensions between more centralized engineering solutions and more distributed nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation in a city where water has always been at the forefront of politics.