India, April 15 -- On Monday afternoon, a meeting between the BMC and the Mumbai Water Tankers Association (MWTA) resolved the deadlock between the two, following which MWTA called off its indefinite suspension of services on Day 5. Owing to no water supply since April 10, housing societies, slums and commercial sectors, which depend on private tankers for their daily needs, were grappling with a water crisis.

The MWTA took the decision a day after the BMC invoked the Disaster Management Act (2005), under which the civic body would take control of all the wells and tankers to continue the water supply in the city. "The BMC has agreed to suspend all the notices, take back the penalties imposed on us, and has told us that the state governm...