42 public posts from residents of seven housing societies, read by AI, organised into a brief PMC Water Supply, the Ward 46 corporator’s office, and RWAs can act on — alongside citizens whose civic care turns infrastructure into a daily habit.
“Konark Pyramid paying ₹1.4 lakh in tankers this month. PMC water at 5am — when nobody is awake to fill tanks.”
“Wanawadi pumping station has been on partial load since March. Nobody at the ward office can give us a fix date — three weeks now.”
“Eight NIBM housing societies meet Ward 46 corporator on chronic water shortage. The system gives him no consolidated data to escalate.”
“Erratic supply since 2024. Last week the timing changed three times in seven days. Plan your tank around their mood.”
“Clover Park and Pyramid Square residents pooling for a community storage tank. We will pay if PMC will plumb.”
“Acknowledged. Water Supply Zone-IV is working on a revised schedule for the Mohammadwadi corridor — update expected by month-end.”
“No PMC water for the third day this week. Konark Pyramid is paying ₹1.4 lakh in tankers this month alone.”
— Reddit r/pune · Apr 2026
“The supply timing changes every week — we cannot plan a single household chore around it.”
— Instagram reel · Mohammadwadi resident
“Wanawadi pumping station has been on partial load since March. Nobody at the ward office can confirm a fix date.”
— PunekarNews · Apr 2026
“Eight societies got together with the corporator. He listened — but the system gives him nothing to act on.”
— NIBM RWA forum · Apr 2026
NIBM’s water shortage isn’t a single failure — it’s seven societies on the wrong side of a supply network that was built for a smaller Mohammadwadi. PMC Water Supply has the technical depth to fix this; what’s missing is one prioritised, costed roadmap that residents and engineers can rally around. What follows is a respectful suggestion, drawing on the Aundh-Baner zonal rationalisation (2023) that successfully smoothed supply for 14 societies with similar load patterns.
PMC Water Supply commissions an acoustic-leak survey across the 4.2 km NIBM trunk + 11 km of feeder lines. Pressure-zone mapping at 18 valve points. Joint walk-through with elected RWA reps.
RWAs nominate one representative each to accompany the survey team. Document chronic-shortage timestamps in a shared sheet — converts anecdotal frustration into engineer-grade data.
Re-zone the seven societies into 3 supply tranches (rather than current adhoc rotation). Publish a fixed weekly schedule. PMC SCADA integration so deviations are visible to ward office in real time.
Once the published schedule lands, plan tank-fill timings around it. Report deviations through the PMC Sahaay app — the dashboard treats every flagged miss as a maintenance ticket.
Develop a 5 MLD GSR (ground-service reservoir) at PMC parcel near Mohammadwadi Survey 142. Dedicated tanker-fill bay reduces unscheduled 3rd-party hauls. 4 community storage tanks (50 KL each) at high-shortage societies.
Societies co-fund the last-mile community tanks (~₹3L per society, recoverable from tanker savings within 14 months). Adopt rooftop rainwater harvesting in parallel — PMC subsidy covers 40%.
Public dashboard at ward46water.pmc.gov.in showing daily supply hours per society, leak-survey progress, complaint resolution times. Monthly RWA + corporator review meeting on the 2nd Saturday.
15 RWA reps trained as PMC-certified Water Wardens. Monthly audit of dashboard accuracy vs lived experience — gives the corporator a clean signal to escalate.
PMC Water Supply rezoned 14 societies in 2023 across a similar load profile. Average daily supply hours rose from 1.8h to 4.5h within 6 months. Tanker dependence dropped 71%.
A new 8 MLD GSR built at Hadapsar Industrial Estate (2024) eliminated chronic shortages for 23 societies. The 5 MLD bay proposed here uses the same DPR template.