A massive crack in a water pipeline that sits right behind a BMC notice etched in stone, urging residents to save water, is leading to taps in Juhu running dry for over three months now. Alert citizen and local resident Larson Fernandes, who scrutinised the locality to pinpoint the reason behind the water shortage, ended up identifying three spots on Juhu Tara Road.

"While two of them were on the main road and clearly visible, the biggest leak was found in the pipe passing through the creek between Ajivasan School and SNDT college, with gallons of water flowing into the sea," Larson said, adding that it is difficult to tell if the pipe is broken or simply corroded since "someone has tied a plastic sheet with a coir rope around it to minimise leakage." It is clearly not very effective though and Larson has been following up with the civic authorities over this for a month now.