Till 2006, Sea-Line Co-operative Housing Society, Khar, faced extreme water shortage a dry bore-well, water cuts and soaring water bills. Ten years later, when most of Mumbai is still grappling with water shortage, Sea-Line is wallowing in abundance and even aids its neighbours. Navin Chandra, 85, pioneered rainwater harvesting in Sea-Line nine years ago and the idea of simply catching raindrops as they fell over the rooftop and ground surfaces to water flower-beds, wash cars and clean toilets has helped the society convert waste into an asset. Today, residents have learnt to use every drop of the precious resource intelligently. Besides a network of three bore-wells, a holding tank and a trench layered with charcoal chips, sand and pebbles, they also had a reverse osmosis plant installed in a corner of the car park to make some of that water drinkable. 

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