India, June 23 -- With Mumbai facing a delayed monsoon and water cuts already in force, corporators across party lines on Monday urged the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to revive traditional water sources, plug leakages and crack down on unauthorised water use.

The worsening water shortage dominated the BMC's general body meeting, with elected representatives pressing the civic administration to adopt immediate and long-term measures to ease the crisis.

Leader of the House, Ganesh Khankar, proposed a citywide campaign to revive wells, calling on the BMC to clean, restore and register them while conducting a comprehensive audit of all borewells. The audit, he said, should identify functional, non-functional and unauthorised bo...