Two Mumbai residents, both adults, seem to have drowned recently. One slipped and fell into the waters and his body was retrieved from a dam. Another went missing in a river. An official has warned that numerous people are visiting water bodies now that it is peak summer. Yet, it is important that they simply do not plunge in as currents are deceptive.

Moreover it is vital that people do not skirt the edges of the water bodies, mistakenly confident that they will not slip and fall. Some of them balance precariously on slick rocks very close to the water. Sometimes there are at least three to four people on a ledge, all of them trying to make space for each other, when it is obvious that there is very little room and there is a very real danger of being pushed off or falling over into the water because of the crowding.