The people of Karjat have proved that even if their wells and taps run dry, their compassion never will. The locals there are struggling with acute water shortage — like the rest of Mumbai and the state — but have not forgotten about the far greater crisis at Latur. Weeks before the government sent its first water train there, Karjat residents had already hit upon the same idea and have already sent thousands of litres of drinking water to give some relief to the bone-dry Latur.