The metropolitan region already receives enough water for its current needs with projections overestimating future requirements. As levels in the lakes that supply water to Mumbai plunged to 5% this summer for the first time since 2019, the city’s municipal corporation has dusted off plans to build a dam on the Gargai river in Wada taluka of Palghar district, north of the city. The project had been shelved because it will submerge around 840 hectares of forest land.