Tackling one problem at a time
Updated On: 29 December, 2025 07:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Lindsay Pereira
Now that India is the world’s fourth-largest economy, we can soon start hoping for running water in this city
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A water pipeline that burst leaving behind a huge crater on Marine Drive earlier this year. FILE PIC
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A lot of people across Bombay had no access to water over the previous month. There were multiple cuts announced for various reasons by the BMC, but no one questioned them because we all know how fickle those ancient pipelines can be. Friends of mine who live in towers were sad that they couldn’t shower after 9 am. They also expressed some concern about their drivers and maids not having running water for days, but I was pleased to see there were no sings of panic. Everyone just accepted this scarcity and the fact that their 2-BHKs costing Rs 2.2-crore didn’t come with 24 hours of running water.
I grew up hoping some funds would be diverted from hoardings and ‘I Love Kanjurmarg’ selfie points towards fixing leaking pipes, but decades have passed with no such projects announced, so I avoid thinking about them. I often wonder why this isn’t a priority in what we are constantly told is the nation’s financial capital, but maybe there are just more important things for the government to focus on. It’s also possible that this is being worked on by some new state-funded organisation we haven’t heard of yet, because we know how the government of Maharashtra is heavily into under-promising and over-delivering.
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