Mumbai, May 7: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has appealed residents of Ghatkopar and Kurla of turbid water supply over the next seven days. As a precautionary measure and prevent people from being infected by any waterborne disease, the civic body has appealed residents to filter and boil the water being supplied to their tanks before its consumption.

The water to be supplied could be infiltrated and contaminated as the BMC will commission the Ghatkopar high-level reservoir tank from today. Since the tank was recently repaired, the civic body claims there is a high-possibility of water being supplied to their houses be muddy, making it unfit for drinking without boiling. Is Boiled Water 100 % safe? 4 Steps to Purify Drinking Water

A senior official from the BMC's Hydraulic department said the issue would last, at maximum, till May 14. The supply would subsequently be normal.

Areas in Ghatkopar where the water supply could be turbid include - Rahul Nagar, Kailash Nagar, Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, Varsha Nagar, Anandgad, Shankar Mandir, Ram Nagar and Hanuman Mandir.

Meanwhile, in Kurla, the residents of following localities need to adopt precaution: Ahmed Raza Marg, Bhanushali Wadi, Kulkarni Wadi, Loyalka Compound,  Subhash Nagar, Laxmi Narayan Mandir Marg, Yadav Nagar, Rajiv Nagar, Ahmed Raza Marg, Sangharsh Nagar, Khairani Road, Sardar Compound, D’Souza Compound and Ayyappa Mandir Marg.

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