This paper had reported recently that thousands of litres of water had been wasted every day for 1.5 months, from a burst water pipeline near the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR). It took a front-page report in this paper to wake civic officials from a convenient coma, but the leak was finally plugged.

Yet, the same pipeline keeps getting punctured by vandals, frustrating the officials who have to keep going back to repair the leak. Seen in the light of the severe drought conditions faced by 16,800 villages in Maharashtra, this is a criminal waste of water.