Navi Mumbai Faces Severe Water Crisis as NMMC Urges Conservation

Navi Mumbai: An intense water crisis started affecting the city residents badly with no rollback of the 10% cut by the agencies. The proposed data centres under Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation and Panvel City Municipal Corporation have been a worrying factor. NMMC has appealed to the residents to cautiously use water, stating that 74% of Morbe dam’s stored water can be used owing to less rainfall. Rodpali and Kalamboli residents have started complaining about water woes.

NMMC earlier this week attributed the poor rainfall to climate change factors: El Nino and IOD (Indian Ocean Dipole). In order to avoid the water crisis, the civic body’s city engineering head issued a nine-point advisory seeking public cooperation on Tuesday (Sept 29).

The civic body appeals for avoiding the misuse of water, need-based use, not using potable water for washing vehicles, avoiding overflow while filling water tanks, not keeping the taps open without necessity, repairing leaking pipelines and developers using the water for potable purposes only, among others.