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Mumbai: Lake levels see slight improvement, city awaits heavy rainfall
Updated On: 29 June, 2024 07:00 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
Overall water stock shows modest gain thanks to recent showers
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Tansa lake in Thane. File pic
For the first time in a while, lake levels have gradually started to show an upward trend. Even though there isn`t much rain in the lakes outside the Mumbai limit, there is a rise of 1,000 million litres of water in combined stock. The city needs around 4,500 million litres of water every day.
Despite the city starting to receive good rain in the past two days, the lakes outside the city limits have received less than an average of 20 mm of rain (measured in the 24 hours up to 6 am on Friday). The total capacity of these lakes is 14.47 lakh million litres, with the water stock at 76,584 million litres as of Thursday, June 27. By Friday, the stock had increased slightly to 77,421 million litres, which is less than a 1,000 million litres increase—barely one-fourth of the city`s daily requirement. Meanwhile, the BMC has drawn 72,780 million litres of water from the reserve stock of Upper Vaitarna and Bhatsa.
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