Lokhandwala lake and its birds and fish are drowning in a deadly combination of plastic and public apathy. A report in this paper highlighted how the four-acre water body is threatened by plastic litter being dumped there.

A warning board that was installed by the BMC, appealing to citizens to not dump plastic into the lake has disappeared, allegedly stolen. This is not the only water body under siege - recently, this paper had also reported on how Versova beach is once again choking with garbage after clean-up volunteers were violently attacked. Civic authorities should immediately deploy security at Lokhandwala lake to avoid a similar scenario. The lake also needs urgent intervention; the pollutants will already have affected the flora and fauna at the water body, but perhaps the damage is still reversible.