CNN Video: Monsoon woes and water cuts are hurting deeply

How a scanty monsoon is affecting Mumbai residents hit by water cuts is CNN correspondent Mallika Kapur's question for the week.

Stepping into homes across Mumbai's various social stratas she finds the same scene playing out, over and over. The Mumbai house wife tap testing 24/7, and getting her family to cooperate in finding and filling every piece of plastic with water for cooking, drinking, bathing and the back log of laundry.

Monsoons have always been notoriously heavy in this part of the country, but in 2009 we're seeing an altogether different pattern -- from too much to not enough. You can keep track of rainfall, or should we say lack thereof, at the government's regional meteorological center in Colaba, but we'll save you the gloomy analysis.

As early as July, reports showed that the effect of climate change on the monsoon was not exactly the prettiest of pictures of clouds and cats and dogs. Now the rain gods are spent and we're still 288,840 million liters short.

It's another sunny week in Mumbai. Not good news at all.