India, April 6 -- While the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is close to completing its 24x7 equitable water supply project for fair and uninterrupted distribution of water, frequent pipeline bursts are causing major disruptions. In the past five months alone, five major leaks have occurred affecting thousands of residents during peak summer season.

On February 16, 2025, a major pipeline supplying water from Shivajinagar to Dandekar Bridge burst. Even as repairs were underway, another pipeline burst. So much so that the PMC had to shut down the water supply but the nearby residential areas were already flooded.

On March 22, 2025, a 12-inch pipeline on BMCC Road burst, wasting hundreds of litres of water.

At 1.45 am on March 24, 2025, a...