While the city continues to reel under a 10 per cent water cut, the civic body promises  cleaner water in the future. Apart from its micro-planning to maintain constant water levels in its zonal reservoirs, the BMC also aims to bring down the contamination percentage of water to below 1 per cent in the future, against last year's (2017-18) 1.38 per cent.

The civic body will take up repair and replacement work of small pipelines that cause contamination at about 105 locations in 2019-20 to ensure this. While it hopes to contain contamination at 1 per cent this financial year (2018-19), the Water Department has, in its budget document, mentioned taking up repair work on 110 kms of water pipelines in the upcoming financial year. Rs 8.71 crore have been proposed for undertaking this work in the budget document released on Monday.