The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will form a committee including IIT professors, a BMC engineer and locals to study the construction of a water tank on Malabar Hill. The committee will submit a report within a month after which a decision will be taken based on the findings. The BMC had decided to construct an additional tank and repair the old reservoir on Malabar Hill, but residents opposed it citing the removal of 389 trees at Pherozeshah Mehta Gardens, also known as Hanging Gardens.

The idea to construct additional tanks before the reconstruction of the 143-year-old reservoir received heavy criticism from residents of Malabar Hill and green activists. Locals claim this development would ‘kill’ the Hanging Gardens. After intervention from a local MLA and Guardian Minister Suburbs, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the BMC issued an interim stay on the construction.