- By Shibra Siddiqui
- Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:51 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Mumbai Water Cut News: People in the Vasai-Virar belt continue to face significant water disruption as water pressure remains low in the area despite a malfunctioning transformer being repaired last week. The transformer in the area was repaired on Tuesday last week after the malfunction had caused a power cut to the Surya Nagar Water Purification Centre built by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), depriving a large section of the population of water.
The area under the Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC) faces a significant reduction in supply due to continuous low pressure. Notably, the Surya water pipeline, meant to bring respite to a major portion of the western Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), has not worked out as hoped. The water pipeline unit continues to struggle with a shortage, even though the Surya Regional Water Supply Project recently won a national award.
The Hindustan Times, citing sources, reported that MMRDA said they are working on a long-term solution with Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL). “We have asked MSEDCL to provide a power connection as a long-term measure,” the HT, citing sources in MMRDA, reported.
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The electricity distribution company said that they had addressed the power supply issue as far as they could but the transformer’s maintenance is the MMRDA’s responsibility, as per the report. The transformer had malfunctioned again on Monday, disrupting the supply till Tuesday evening, the report quoted VVCMC sources.
While the work to extend the Surya Water Pipeline to Mira-Bhayandar is on, the report quoting an engineer from the VVCMC water supply department reported that they were working to fix the transformer breakdown. Notably, the Surya water supply plant caters to the Vasai-Virar belt with 403 million litres per day. “For more than a week, we have been relying on water tankers, which have hiked their rates two to four times,” the HT quotes a resident of Vasai-Virar, S Dwivedi. He further said that his housing colony has been ordering at least two water tankers daily, and rates vary from ₹6,000 to ₹10,000 per tanker, up from ₹2,000 to ₹3,000. Other residents from Vasai said they have been bribing the watchman, who controls the valves of the water tank, the report added.