The news is out: water levels in Mumbai are over 15 per cent less than last year. It might seem routine but it has the city up in arms. Mumbaikars have hit the roads demonstrating on the painful summer that came in early this year. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (bmc) started the summer with a ten per cent cut in water supply, from that of last year, and hoped that the rain gods would bail it out. But now, many liquid facts are gaining shape.

It is pretty obvious that life isn't fair for most in Mumbai. But, while ordinary Mumbaikars, as also the rest of Maharashtra, reel under a grave water scarcity