Mumbai will face a 10 percent cut in water supply from Saturday, July 1 due to inadequate rainfall. The delayed monsoon rains hardly brought any changes to the water levels of reservoirs as the stock in lakes supplying water to the city is about 7 percent.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) approved the water cut on the recommendation of the hydraulic department, said BMC chief Iqbal Singh Chahal, as per a report by Times of India. Chahal has also appealed to citizens to save water and use it judiciously.
The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) is implementing 15 percent water cuts from today onwards. However, if the situation aggravates, the cut can go up to 25 percent, the CIDCO said.
As of Tuesday morning, the water level in the seven lakes supplying water to Mumbai was at 7.26 percent at 6 am on Wednesday of the total 14 lakh million litres of water required to meet the city's demand for the year. On the same day in 2022 and 2021, the lakes had 9.04 percent and 16.44 percent water stock respectively, as per the report.
Of the seven lakes, the maximum percentage of potable water is supplied by Bhatsa (48 percent), followed by upper Vaitarna (16 percent), Middle Vaitarna (12 percent), Modak Sagar (11 percent), Tansa (10 percent), and Tulsi and Vihar lakes (2 percent).
With inputs from PTI
First Published: Jun 28, 2023 10:29 AM IST
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