In a bitter situation last year, over 25 lakh residents of Pimpri-Chinchwad  were affected by acute water  shortage. However, the situation can improve for better in 2020 as the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has “promised” to improve the water supply system and ensure that adequate water reaches each house.

The residents of the industrial city have been affected bitterly, last summer with the worst water crisis in its history, as the water level in the Pavana dam sunk to a new low in the city which further got aggravated with a delayed monsoon. 

In the last two months, Pimpri-Chinchwad residents rose in protest, urging the Shravan Hardikar-led PCMC administration to restore daily water supply. They even wrote to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray demanding to ensure adequate water supply.

The administration said the work for laying the pipeline was underway and things would improve only when the work was completed.