diff --git a/servant-client/servant-client.cabal b/servant-client/servant-client.cabal
index 3b8e521e..c49cfe0e 100644
--- a/servant-client/servant-client.cabal
+++ b/servant-client/servant-client.cabal
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ library
     , text                  >= 1.2      && < 1.3
     , transformers          >= 0.3      && < 0.6
     , transformers-compat   >= 0.4      && < 0.6
-    , http-conduit
     , mtl
   hs-source-dirs: src
   default-language: Haskell2010
diff --git a/servant-client/src/Servant/Common/Req.hs b/servant-client/src/Servant/Common/Req.hs
index 1da8c687..7a8d7a1e 100644
--- a/servant-client/src/Servant/Common/Req.hs
+++ b/servant-client/src/Servant/Common/Req.hs
@@ -21,12 +21,6 @@ import Control.Monad.Error.Class (MonadError(..))
 #endif
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Except
 
-#if MIN_VERSION_http_client(0,4,19)
-import Network.HTTP.Client hiding (Proxy, path)
-#else
-import Network.HTTP.Client.Conduit hiding (Proxy, path)
-#endif
-
 
 import GHC.Generics
 import Control.Monad.IO.Class ()
@@ -40,6 +34,7 @@ import Data.Text.Encoding
 import Data.Typeable
 import Network.HTTP.Media
 import Network.HTTP.Types
+import Network.HTTP.Client hiding (Proxy, path)
 import qualified Network.HTTP.Types.Header   as HTTP
 import Network.URI hiding (path)
 import Servant.API.ContentTypes
@@ -173,8 +168,6 @@ data ClientEnv
   , baseUrl :: BaseUrl
   }
 
-instance HasHttpManager ClientEnv where
-    getHttpManager = manager
 
 -- | @ClientM@ is the monad in which client functions run. Contains the
 -- 'Manager' and 'BaseUrl' used for requests in the reader environment.