Marking the best single-day bounce of the season, the full inventory within the seven lakes catering to Mumbai’s water calls for noticed a spike of 9 per cent prior to now 24 hours, because the lake ranges touched 66.77 per cent on Thursday morning. Amid incessant rain in and round Mumbai Vehar lake and Modak Sagar lake began overflowing on Thursday.
With the water inventory replenishing and 4 lakes filling to capability prior to now week, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) introduced that the ten per cent water minimize will probably be revoked from Monday, July 29. In an announcement, the civic physique added that it’s also slated to withdraw the ten per cent slash within the water provide in Thane metropolis, Bhiwadi and gram panchayat divisions the place the BMC provides water, beginning July 29.
On Thursday morning, the lake ranges soared to 66.77 per cent (9.66 lakh million litres), indicating the bounce of almost 9 per cent from Wednesday when the degrees stood at 58 per cent. That is considerably increased than 2023 ranges, when on the identical day, the water inventory remained at 55 per cent. In 2022, the lake ranges touched 89 per cent throughout the identical interval.
Amid heavy showers replenishing the catchment areas, Vehar lake, which has a complete holding capability of 27,698 million litres, began overflowing within the wee hours on Thursday. Coming alongside its heels, Modak Sagar lake, located in Shahapur, began overflowing at 10.40 am on Thursday. Whereas Modak Sadak lake has a complete capability of 1.28 lakh million litres, the lake provides 455 million litres of water to the town each day.
A water minimize was carried out within the metropolis on June 5. Resulting from a scarcity of rain in June, the lake ranges remained at a low of 5 per cent all through the month. Nonetheless, ranging from the primary week of July, the lake ranges have been slowly however persistently rising.
Mumbai receives water from seven lakes: Tulsi, Vihar, Bhatsa, Modak Sagar, Tansa, Higher Vaitarna, and Center Vaitarna, located throughout Mumbai, Thane, and Nashik districts. The catchment areas of those lakes are stuffed in the course of the monsoon, following which the water is provided via a labyrinthine community of pipelines all year long.
To date, 4 of the seven lakes have stuffed to capability and began overflowing over the previous week. On Wednesday, July 24, Tansa lake in Thane district began overflowing, main the BMC to open three dam gates on Wednesday night. The Tansa lake has a reside storage capability of 1.45 lakh million litres of water, and it provides 455 million litres of water to the town per day.
In the meantime, Tulsi Lake, the smallest of the lakes, began overflowing on the morning of July 20.
Information offered by the civic physique signifies that every one seven lakes acquired greater than 100 mm of rain within the 24 hours main as much as 6 am on Thursday. Throughout this era, Modak Sagar lake acquired the best quantity of rain at 217 mm, adopted by Tulsi lake at 205 mm, Center Vaitarna at 166 mm, Bhatsa at 139 mm, Higher Vaitarna at 123 mm, Vehar lake at 122 mm, and Tansa lake at 109 mm.
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