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| February 14, 2010 | Water crisis triggers violent protests in Mumbai | | Mumbai: Activists of an NGO 'Swabhiman' staged a demonstration
in Mumbai on Sunday against the water supply cut by the Brihan-Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The activists gathered at Dadar area and broke the
windshields of two tankers. They claimed that a local mafia was siphoning off water
tanker supply to affluent areas. "We want the common man's water woes should end.
Today BMC is saying that there is less water but when there was enough water what
did
they do? where was the water stored and why was water harvesting not done?" said
Santosh Kubal, spokesperson of Swabhiman. In December last year, civic
authorities
had cut down piped water supply by as much as 20 percent. BMC has said that
despite
heavy rains which lashed the city in July, 2009, the water level in the catchments
areas of the city's six lakes has dropped. The problem of water crisis is worst
in slum areas as the residents of the area are forced to dig bore-wells around
the periphery. Some are compelled to use the drainage water for household
purposes. | |
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