On Tuesday, September 28, the water level in seven lakes of Mumbai crossed 99.07 per cent.
These seven lakes supply drinking
water to Mumbai. These lakes and reservoirs are Tulsi, Tansa, Vihar, Bhatsa,
Modak Sagar, Upper Vaitarna, and Middle Vaitarna.
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Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC) has shared data that reveals the seven lakes have 14,33,198
million litres of water or 99.07 per cent on Tuesday. This is against the total
capacity, which is around 14.47 lakh million litres.
Water stock was at 99.12 per cent
around the same time last year. In 2019, the water stock was 98.81 per cent.
Tansa and Modak Sagar are the two
primary sources of supplying potable water to Mumbai. A civic official said
that both of them started to overflow on July 22nd.
Vihar and Tulsi lake started to
overflow on July 18th and 16th, respectively. Five gates of Bhatsa lake were
reportedly opened on September 11. Tansa lake's water level is at 99.10 per
cent.
Middle Vaitarna has 96.92 per
cent of water stock available, while Upper Vaitarna has 99.58 per cent of the
stock present.
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Modak Sagar has 100 per cent
water stock available, and Bhatsa has 99.2 per cent of the water available.
Vihar and Tulsi, both of them, have 100 per cent of beneficial water levels.
National Disaster Response Force
(NDRF) on Monday, September 27, had deployed a team in Osmanabad ahead of Cyclone
Gulab.
Over the next few days,
Maharashtra is expected to receive heavy rains with strong and gusty winds due
to Cyclone Gulab.
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