MUMBAI: Several housing societies in Mumbai have kept their swimming pools shut now to prevent any peak summer crisis, after BMC imposed 10% water cuts since November due to low stocks in the lakes that cater to Mumbai. For instance, Sion’s Vasanti Apartments has shut its pool for a month while Splendor Township in  Navi Mumbai  has kept its pool closed for the past couple of months. A senior BMC engineer said the civic body does not supply water to swimming pools and that societies have to arrange water for their pools themselves—through filtration plants, harvest sumps, borewells, etc. Jasbir Singh Bira, president of the Mumbai Water Tankers’ Association, said many society and club swimming pools are using filtration plants to ensure continuous water supply. Societies and clubs that do not have filtration plants keep their pools shut periodically to avoid continued expenditure on tankers. “As a result, only five or six tankers of water is supplied to housing societies for swimming pools every day now. Until a few years ago, 20 to 25 tankers of water would go for swimming pools alone every day,” he said. According to him, apartments such as Vasanti have shown their responsibility towards the society. “We also rationed the limited drinking water in order to save it. A majority of dams have only 25- 30% water left,” said a resident of Vasanti Apartments explaining their decision to shut their pool for a month. In fact, the total stock in the seven lakes that supply water to Mumbai now is at 22%. Source :- Economic Times