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Mumbai’s Water Problem: Building New Dams Will Not Solve the City’s Poor Distribution Network

Sachin Tiwale

Scroll | October 4, 2024

As levels in the lakes that supply water to Mumbai plunged to 5% this summer for the first time since 2019, the city’s municipal corporation has dusted off plans to build a dam on the Gargai river in Wada taluka of Palghar district, north of the city. The project had been shelved because it will submerge around 840 hectares of forest land.

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