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===Utility services=== The PMC supplies the city with potable water that is sourced from the [[Khadakwasla]] Reservoir. There are five other reservoirs in the area that supply water to the city and the greater metropolitan area.<ref name="tirthkar">Tirthkar, S.N., 2009. Master plan 2025 of Pune Municipal Corporation for sewage treatment and disposal. J Inst Public Health Eng, 2, pp.13β19.[http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Master%20plan%202025%20of%20Pune.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210180344/http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Master%20plan%202025%20of%20Pune.pdf|date=10 February 2018}}</ref> The city lacks the capacity to treat all the sewage it generates, which leads to the Mutha river containing only sewage outside the monsoon months.<ref>Wagh, G.K. and Ghate, H.V., 2003. Freshwater fish fauna of the rivers Mula and Mutha, Pune, Maharashtra. Zoos' Print Journal, 18(1), pp.977β981.</ref> In 2009 only 65% of sewage generated was treated before being discharged into the rivers.<ref name="tirthkar" /> According to Anwesha Borthakur and Pardeep Singh, unplanned and haphazard development has turned the Mula-Mutha river into a dead river. The Pune municipal corporation has undertaken plans to restore life into the rivers.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40974-016-0039-2.pdf|title=India's lost rivers and rivulets|author1=Anwesha Borthakur|author2=Pardeep Singh|journal=Energ. Ecol. Environ.|date=2016|volume=1|issue=5|pages=310β314|doi=10.1007/s40974-016-0039-2|bibcode=2016EEE.....1..310B |s2cid=132360046|access-date=28 October 2021|archive-date=23 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123141808/https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40974-016-0039-2.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> PMC is also responsible for collecting solid waste. Around 1,600 tons of solid waste is generated in Pune each day. The waste consists of 53% organic, compostable material; and 47% inorganic material, of which around half is recyclable. The unrecovered solid waste is transported to the dumping grounds in Urali devachi.<ref>Butsch, C., Kumar, S., Wagner, P.D., Kroll, M., Kantakumar, L.N., Bharucha, E., Schneider, K. and Kraas, F., 2017. Growing 'Smart'? Urbanization Processes in the Pune Urban Agglomeration. Sustainability, 9(12), p.2335 [http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/12/2335] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118123933/http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/12/2335|date=18 January 2018}}</ref> The state owned [[Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited]] supplies electricity to the city. [[Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited]] (BSNL), owned by the [[Government of India|central government]], as well as private enterprises such as [[Jio|Reliance Jio]], [[Bharti Airtel]] and [[Vodafone Idea]] are the leading telephone and cell phone service providers in the city.<ref name="trai ar 11 wire">{{cite web|title=Annual report 2010β11|url=http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/UserFiles/Documents/AnuualReports/ar_10_11.pdf|publisher=Telecom Regulatory Authority of India|access-date=13 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526230024/http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/UserFiles/Documents/AnuualReports/ar_10_11.pdf|archive-date=26 May 2012}}</ref>{{rp|25β26}}{{rp|179}} [[File:New building of Sassoon Hospital, Pune.jpg|thumb|One of the oldest hospitals in India, [[Sassoon Hospital]]]]
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