By Vikas Nag
@nag228
Mumbai:Â With half of the monsoon season having got over the water level in lakes that supply water to Mumbai have only 41.47 per cent water stock available as compared to the total requirement of the city.
About 14, 47,363 million liters of water is needed to meet the daily requirement of Mumbaikars till next monsoon. But as of now water stock in all the seven lakes is only 41.47 per cent that is 600,158 million liters.
After Tulsi, Vihar is the second lake which filled to its capacity and started overflowing on Wednesday night. Vihar lake holds a capacity of 27,698 million liters and started to overflow yesterday. The lake started to overflow on July 31 last year. In 2018, the Vihar lake started overflowing on July 16. A few days ago on July 27, the Tulsi lake had also overflowed after getting water to its capacity of 8046 million liters.
There are seven lakes which supplies water to Mumbai and the adjoining areas are upper Vaitarna, Modak Sagar, Tansa, Middle Vaitarna, Bhatsa, Vihar, and Tulsi. Among the seven lakes, Vihar and Tulsi are the two smallest lakes which supply water to Mumbai and fall under the BMC’s jurisdiction. On an average, 90 million liters of water is supplied daily from the Vihar lake to Mumbai”, said an official from the Hydraulic department of BMC.
Earlier, BMC has announced that it would impose a 20 percent water cut from August 5 due to less rainfall and lakes not filling up. However, the heavy downpour since the last few days has changed the scenario somewhat.
According to the information received by the Hydraulic department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the total water stock of the seven reservoirs currently stand at 41.47 per cent, which is 60,018 ML.
