Residents of the housing societies are now getting cleaner water after mid-day highlighted their problem in the July 18 article, ‘Aila! Sachin’s former locality has a bad H2O problem’. The issue of contaminated water in Kalanagar has been resolved, and residents of three major housing societies in Bandra East — Patrakar, Sahitya Sahawas, and Kalabhushan — no longer have to deal with the murky brown tap water that had earlier forced many of them to depend on packaged drinking water.

Sonal Kotnis, a resident of Patrakar Society, said, “We are getting clean water now, but we hope this continues properly. Since this is the second time we’re facing this issue, we’re all sceptical.” Kotnis, along with other residents of the area, is now observing the water and checking whether it returns to the same murkiness or remains clean for use.

Patrakar Co-operative Housing Society in Bandra East, where residents were receiving contaminated water