MUMBAI: Water supply to parts of Bandra West was affected on Tuesday after a three-foot leakage was detected at Lucky Junction on Swami Vivekananda Road around 2 am.
The leak occurred in one of the two water mains supplying the Pali water reservoir, specifically in a main pipeline with a diameter of 600 millimetres. Efforts to stop the water leak were immediately undertaken on a war footing.
A video went viral on social media showing lakhs of litres of water being wasted.
“Due to the pipeline leak, the water supply in the H West ward has been affected. Water supply in some areas will remain shut off, and it will be restored once repair work is completed. However, in some areas, water is being supplied at low pressure through the Veravali reservoir,” said BMC in a statement, adding that during this period, citizens are urged by the municipal administration to use water sparingly.
Donald Dcunhna, sub engineer of the civic water maintenance department, said, “It being a busy junction with heavy traffic movement and also metro work being carried out above, we had to excavate the area very carefully. While the leak began at 2 am, after isolating the line we could detect the same only around 9 am.”
