The study was a part of initiative taken by TISS, to understand the impact of irregular water supply on the people of those slums , which are established after 1995 and do not receive any sort of water supply from Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The study which had been carried out on 21 slums communities of the city covering more than 2 lakh people has thrown some alarming statistics. 

Since the water supply comes between 8 am to 2 pm, 35 per cent of adult are forced to skip their work where as 69 per cent of children has to skip school in order to collect water. More than 81 per cent of people have to wait in the queue for more than 3 hours before bringing water to their home, carrying the buckets on the head. 

Around 81per cent people has to purchase water to carry out their daily necessity for which a family has to shell out Rs 600 monthly for a daily consumption of 150 litres of water.  Only 19 per cent of the residing population has the access to tap water at their homes. 

According to Simpreet Singh of the National Alliance of People’s Movement, “People have to buy water from middlemen, who procure it illegally,’’ said Simpreet Singh of. The slum dwellers pay 30 times more than the prescribed rate for water.” 

Daily in Mumbai, around 3500 million litres of water is being supplied from various resources. Out of this daily supply, around 700 million litres of water is lost by way of water thefts, illegal connections and leakages, per day in Mumbai.