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@LNS2208 @mybmc #MumbaiDesalinationPlantScam WATER SECURITY OR MULTI CRORE LAND HEIST?

[Laxminarayan Shetty @LNS2208]

#MumbaiDesalinationPlantScam WATER SECURITY OR MULTI CRORE LAND HEIST?

@mybmc told us: Mumbai is building desalination plants to save its people from future water shortages.
What they didn’t tell us: This may actually be one of the biggest land & money games in the city’s recent history.

The Official Story
•The BMC announced a ₹3,200 crore desalination plant at Manori claiming it will secure Mumbai’s water future.
•Capacity: 200 MLD (million litres/day).
•Technology: Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO)
•Deal: 20-year “Take-or-Pay” contract.

Translation:- Even if the plant doesn’t supply a single drop BMC will still be bound to pay private companies.

Now BMC has also invited bids for a second desalination plant at Versova despite the Manori project still being delayed.

The Real Numbers
•Cost of desal water: ₹42 per 1,000 litres.
•Cost of reservoir water: ₹7 per 1,000 litres.
•Meaning: 6 times costlier.
•Over 20 years this contract could bleed Mumbai’s public treasury of thousands of crores.

The Red Flags 🚩
https://t.co/HVDNhXWCOr Failures Ignored:-
•Chennai’s ₹1,033 crore Nemmeli plant runs at just 50% efficiency.
•California’s Carlsbad plant locked taxpayers into a 30 year overpriced water deal. The water was so salty & unusable, officials dumped it into lakes.
•Israel & Singapore use desal only as an emergency buffer not as a primary source.
Mumbai knows this yet signs the deal. Why?
https://t.co/uZLi0nhrTa, Not Water, is the Prize
•The Manori site covers 12 hectares of untouched coastline.
•Earlier zoning: Tourism zone – “No permanent construction allowed.”
•Now: reclassified as “Government Project Land.”
•Once that stamp is applied → roads get built, restrictions vanish & the coastline flips into prime real estate.
A no-go beach suddenly becomes developable.
3.Tender Drama
•Tender floated, cancelled & rewritten four times.
•Reason? To suit the “right bidders.”
•Now 21 giants, from Adani to L&T are circling the project.
If it was really about water, why this cat & mouse game?

The Brine Bomb
For every litre of fresh water, desal plants produce 1.5 litres of toxic brine. This chemical-loaded salt water goes back into the sea, killing fish, choking coasts & destroying mangroves. Manori, Malad, Gorai fishing & tourism based communities will pay the real price.

Authorities Involved
•BMC Standing Committee – approved the project.
•Hydraulic Engineering Department, BMC – technical justifications.
•Environment & Urban Development Department (Govt. of Maharashtra) – cleared land use change.
•Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Authorities – permitted project on ecologically sensitive coastline.
•Contractor-Consortium (Private Players) – to execute & enjoy the assured revenue stream.

Why This Smells of a Scam
•If water was the real issue → cheaper, quicker fixes exist: repair leaking pipelines (Mumbai loses 25–30% water in leakages daily), recycle sewage water, rejuvenate reservoirs.
•Instead the city is being pushed into the costliest, least efficient & riskiest solution.
•The timing of tender rewrites & the land zoning flip raise the biggest red flag: this is not about water it’s about land & contracts.

What’s Next?
•Manori project (₹3,200 crore) – already surrounded by suspicion.
•Versova project – BMC has invited Expressions of Interest. Same playbook, bigger stakes.

Soon two of Mumbai’s last untouched coastlines could be stamped, cleared & turned into mega project zones under the garb of “water security”

The Big Question ??

If this is really about saving Mumbaikars from water shortage – why are we signing land heavy, money heavy, 20 year contracts with global failure track records, instead of fixing basic supply & leakage issues?

Because desal plants don’t just produce water. They produce land.
And in Mumbai land is everything.

This isn’t a water project. This is a Multi Crore Land Scam waiting to unfold. And once the coastline is gone, we’ll never get it back.

[Laxminarayan Shetty @LNS2208]

As per early media reports & police sources, actor Shefali Jariwala’s sudden death may be linked to an anti ageing injection allegedly taken after a full day of fasting for a religious puja. The cause of death is suspected to be cardiac arrest & the post mortem was conducted at Cooper Hospital.

If these preliminary details are true, they raise urgent & serious questions:
1. Who prescribed this injection?
2. Was it safe to administer on an empty stomach or during fasting?
3. Was informed consent taken with all possible risks explained?
4. Was the medicine approved, regulated and safely administered?
5. Was the dermatologist or clinic following ethical & medical guidelines?

If there was any medical negligence, misuse of unregulated injectables, or lapse in judgment then accountability must follow…not only for Shefali’s sake but to prevent such tragedies in the future.

This isn’t just a personal loss…it’s a public health concern. The booming aesthetic industry must be held to the highest safety & ethical standards, especially when dealing with injectables and off label treatments.

Request the authorities to ensure a fair, thorough & transparent investigation.

🕊️ Justice for Shefali.
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[Ashish Goyal @AG_GOYEL]

@mihirkotecha @manoj_kotak @CMOMaharashtra @KiritSomaiya Mulund's pride Kalidas Sports Complex swimming pool needs revamp or to the least fresh painting in the viewing gallary of swimming pool.

It almost looks like a haunted place...

[Ashish Goyal @AG_GOYEL]

@mumbaitraffic @RoadsOfMumbai @mybmc halfside of the MGLR is encroached - this is causing traffic jam, pls action

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#Nirmal_Lifestyle Rsdncy #Club_House in #Mulund being dmlshd as per the whims & fancies of the Tward A.C Mr Alle. structure has been erected since 15 yrs nw sddnly being targetted by @mybmc .Sm officer hs been harassing other Establishmntin mulund @AUThackeray @IqbalSinghChah2

[Darsshan Soni @DarshanSoniCRPC]

@CommissionerHR @coe Hello 🤝🏻
I need Urg help at Afghanisthan, I am in receipt of one application from female Journalist seeking help to migrate, She is getting threatenings to her life. Where I can forward all Concerned details

Regards,
Darshan Soni
National President, C.R.P.C
- for Human Rights

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Traffic Police towing van with a constable having no regard for rules in mid of the Sonapur junction signal. Wrong side, lane cutting, signal jumping endangering lives of motorists, bikers n public. Please penalise them. @MumbaiPolice @CPMumbaiPolice

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

#Exclusive | #VasooligateDisclosure: TIMES NOW accesses UPSC committee file pertaining to the appointment of Maharashtra DGP Sanjay Pandey. Papers reveal Pandey's name was not even shortlisted by the UPSC panel in accordance with SC guidelines.

Megha Prasad with details.

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[Nishant Seth @nishseth]

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Frauds like Sunil Bhanushali are very comfortably pulling such cheating stunts and robbing innocent of their rights. Request @CPMumbaiPolice @MumbaiPolice to investigate and bring the guilty to the books

[dharmesh thakkar @newzhit]

affidavit along with the police complaints filed by @bombayhc and notary adv SMN Naqvi in Supreme Court criminal SLP no. 6868/2021 against Sunil Ramesh Bhanushali for forged, fabricated and fake stamp and signature of advocate smn naqvi on property sale documents @CPMumbaiPolice