Even as Mumbai — and the rest of Maharashtra — reels under the worst water crisis in years, the BEST Undertaking is wasting thousands of litres of drinking water just to wash its buses. Every day, the Undertaking spends over 70,000 litres of water for this, and almost the entire amount comes from the BMC’s potable water supply.

This, despite the fact that BEST was asked to avoid using drinking water and use borewell water instead. BEST Committee member, Ravi Raja pointed out, "It is wrong of the BEST to use potable water. They should make arrangements for borewells to avoid this wastage."