Residents of three prominent housing societies in Bandra East — Patrakar, Sahitya Sahawas (famously known as the society where cricketer Sachin Tendulkar grew up), and Kalabhushan — have been grappling with severe water contamination for the past 15 days. The murky brown tap water has forced many to switch to packaged drinking water, as repeated complaints to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have yielded no lasting solution.

The contaminated water received by the residents of Bandra East. Pic/Dr Ajit Desai, President, Bandra East alm

“We’ve been getting dirty, brown water every single day for the last 15 days. Authorities keep telling us to wait a few more days, saying they’re still waiting on internal permissions from the BMC ward office. How are we expected to bear this for another 4-10 days?” asked Siddharth Pardhe, a resident of Sahitya Sahawas, located on Madhusudan Kalelkar Marg near Kala Nagar.