Water in Bavdhan: the question nobody volunteers

We could leave this one out. Most sites selling flats in Bavdhan do.

It is in here because it is the single most common thing people regret not asking, and because a buyer who finds out in April rather than in August has a much worse year.

What is actually reported

Parts of Bavdhan receive municipal water on an alternate-day schedule rather than daily. Resident reporting describes intermittent supply in some pockets, with pressure worst through the summer months.

The gap gets filled by tankers, bought by the society, and that appears on the maintenance bill rather than on any brochure.

This is not the whole suburb. It varies pocket to pocket, and it varies with which societies have their own borewell and how good it is. Which is exactly why a locality-level answer is useless and a plot-level answer is essential.

Five questions, asked of the right people

Ask these of the society committee in a neighbouring completed building, not of a sales team. The sales team may genuinely not know, and they are not the ones who paid last summer’s tanker bill.

1. Municipal or tanker, and how many hours a day? Get the answer for April, not for August.
2. What did the society spend on tankers last summer? A number in rupees settles the question faster than any description.
3. Is there a borewell, and what is its yield in April? Plenty of borewells perform well in November and poorly when it matters.
4. What is the underground and overhead tank capacity, expressed in days? Litres mean nothing without knowing how many households draw on them.
5. Is the connection sanctioned by the municipal corporation, or still running on a builder arrangement? These are different things and only one of them is permanent.

What we do not know about Serenique

The developer has not published a street address for this project, let alone a water arrangement. So we cannot tell you which pocket the plot sits in or how it is served.

What we can tell you is that the question exists, that it is answerable, and that it should be answered before a booking rather than after possession.

When the plot location is released we will publish it, and this is one of the first things we will ask about on your behalf.

The fair counterweight

Bavdhan is not unusual in this. Water pressure is a live issue across Pune’s western suburbs, and a large planned development with three basement levels has considerably more storage capacity than an older society on a small plot.

A 14-acre scheme is also the kind of project that gets a sanctioned bulk connection rather than being retrofitted onto an existing line. That tends to work in a buyer’s favour.

So this is a question, not a verdict. The mistake is not buying in Bavdhan. It is buying without having asked.