-The Times of India
Social workers and tribal leaders Several hundred tribal families who are going to be displaced by the Kalu, Susari, Shai and Balganga dams in Murbad, Dahanu, Thane and Raigarh to provide water for Mumbai in the future protested at the Gates of the MMRDA at Bandra East on Tuesday. The dams are being built by the Konkan Irrigation Department and are financed by the MMRDA met MMRDA officials and asked the planners to create an efficient system to distribute water.tnn .Plug all leakages and misappropriationof water, distgribute water equ;itably and conduct a water audit for the entire MMRDA region,” they said. They also pointed out the need for an anternative land and water plan which would include alternatives including railwater harvesting, rejuvenation of wells and tanks and recycling of water.