It has been more than four years since the ambitious Water Distribution Improvement Project (WDIP) was launched in Mumbai to ease its water woes. However, the trial process, which began earlier this month only in the H-West ward (Bandra West), has run into some teething troubles. Residents from areas like Chapel Road and Mount Mary are complaining about the low pressure of their water supply, which is not even letting them fill up their tanks properly.

Despite the issues being faced by residents of some areas as of now, civic officials claim the Bandra-Santacruz stretch will receive up to eight hours of continuous water supply by November. As part of the pilot project, work was taken up in H-west (Bandra) and T wards (Mulund) back in June 2014. But the trial process has only just begun in H-west ward. Officials from BMC’s hydraulic engineering department said they started the process more than two weeks ago, after fitting 11 pressure regulating valves and two altitude valves.