The genie is out of the bottle. After MiD DAY’s report on November 9 (‘Corporators don’t trust BMC water’) on members of the civic body shying away from consuming the same tap water that Mumbaikars have to make do with and choosing packaged water instead, councillors representing two political parties — Congress and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) — have decided to drink out of the same ‘well’ as the rest of us.

Aqua impure: The transformation from tap water to bottled water has been attributed to thousands of Mumbaikars regularly receiving murky BMC water in recent days. Representation pic