Dams supplying water to Mumbai are nearly full, yet a housing society in the heart of the city is forced to depend on water tankers every day. The Sion-based Municipal Shivranjani Society, as its name suggests, is home to several former and serving Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials, but it has not been able to secure adequate water supply from the civic body.
          
The society has been struggling with water shortages since October last year. When members approached the F North ward office of the BMC, officials carried out an internal inquiry and informed them that their underground pipeline was damaged. Rather than replacing it, the society was advised to install a new line above the ground. However, residents’ water woes were far from over as the society now receives a fraction of the amount of water it used to receive daily.

Society members, most of whom are retired civic officials