Fingers crossed: Pipeline fixed, water to be back in taps today

BMC tweets saying repairs to damaged pipeline fixed, water supply should be restored to western suburbs by Sunday morning

Chetna Sadadekar chetna. sadadekar@ mid- day. com Even as residents of some western and central suburbs, suffered a third day in a row without water supplyu2014 owing to damage of an inlet from Tansa to Veravali reservoir on the Jogeshwari- Vikhroli Link Road on Wednesday night during Metro piling worku2014 thereu2019s some good news. The civic body on Saturday said that regular water supply will be restored in all areas by Sunday morning.

Residents in the meanwhile have been struggling without water since Thursday and waiting for water tankers despite BMC making tanker services free for areas from Jogeshwari to Bandra and Ghatkopar, Kurla.

Asif Zakaria, Congress corporator from Bandra, said, referring to the charge that the BMCu2019s map to the MMRDA was incorrect which led to them damaging the pipeline, u201c There is unavailability of bottled water, and it is getting difficult to source tankers as well.

Ghatkopar and Kurla, too were affected by the pipeline damage There is unavailability of bottled water, and it is getting difficult to source tankers as well. The BMC should have mapped their underground utilities carefully Asif Zakaria, corporator

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