There has been outrage after a front page report in this paper about a first-of-its-kind survey by BMC's Storm Water Drains department revealing that 76,425 out of the city's nearly 3.5 lakh sewage lines are illegally dumping untreated toxic waste into the ocean.

High-rises or slums, their crap is flowing straight into our rivers and sea. Nearly a fifth of Mumbai, over 76,000 properties, is discharging untreated sewage into stormwater drains that are meant solely for rainwater. These drains then empty the sewage into the rivers or the sea. The survey throws up data that these 76,000-odd street connections are flowing into SWDs and nullahs or are discharging raw sewage into rivers like the Mithi, Oshiwara, Dahisar and Poisar.