All the enthusiasm with which Mumbai University (MU) made the artificial lake at Kalina seems to have dried up, thanks to which, the water body is heading for a similar fate.

The lake, which is six-foot-deep and 75 feet in diameter, is so dry that one can easily cross it on foot. Fish, turtles and other aquatic creatures are turning up belly up, unable to survive as the decade-old lake continues to shrink in the searing summer heat. Irked by the administration's indifference, students have now written to the varsity, asking for permission to bring water tankers to fill the lake, stated a report in this newspaper.