Updated On: 20 June, 2024 07:41 AM IST | Mumbai | Prajakta Kasale
The last time the city faced a situation similar to 2024 was in 2019

BMC has been fetching reserve stock of water from Bhatsa
This year, the lake water levels have got to the lowest in the last 10 years despite the use of reserved stock.
If the civic corporation hadn’t used the reserved stock, the actual water levels would have gone below two per cent. The city faced a similar situation in 2019, but at the time, the lakes were not filled in the earlier monsoon season. On June 19, the combined stock in all seven lakes went down to merely five per cent. The city has faced water cuts in eight years in the past 10 years. But the water level was never this low.