With city water reservoirs only 70 per cent full, the BMC pins hope on MET forecast that says it will rain today as well
With city water reservoirs only 70 per cent full, the BMC pins hope on MET forecast that says it will rain today as well
BMC officials are understandably elated with the MET department's forecast, which says it will not stop raining for the next 24 hours.
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The officials, however, say the rains are not heavy enough to roll back the ongoing 15 per cent water cuts necessitated by low water levels at the city reservoirs.
Cloud seeding
Pramod Charankar, deputy municipal commissioner, BMC, said the civic body will continue with the cloud seeding procedures.
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"With the water levels in lakes being what they are, the city needs uninterrupted and heavy rainfall for two to three days.
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Wet dream: These men enjoy the unexpected rains that lashed the city last evening with a bike ride in Lalbaug. |
While we are happy with this bonus rainfall, we will decide on status of the ongoing water cuts after the second week of October," said Charankar.
Dr R V Sharma, deputy director general of the Indian Metrological Department, Mumbai, said, "There is low pressure area over west central Bay of Bengal, which has moved to the adjoining north coastal Andhra Pradesh and south coastal Orissa.
This will cause a few spells of heavy rainfall, accompanied with thunderstorms in the next 24 hours. The monsoons are yet to withdraw from Maharashtra, though they have entered northern India."
Damaged CarsHeavy winds sent a barricade at a metro rail construction site flying near Seven Bungalows yesterday, smashing windshields of four cars.
Sanjita Sinha lodged a complaint at the Versova Police Station. "I was passing by in my Mercedes passing when the barricade from the metro rail construction site shattered my windshield.
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I will have to spend Rs 1 lakh on repairs. There was no security guard at the site. This could have been a serious mishap," said Sinha.
Mansi Tiwari, spokesperson, Mumbai Metro One, said, "I have no knowledge of any such incident. There were no employees at the site, as it was a holiday."
21 CroreThe number of buckets of water required by Mumbai every day, but the city gets only 17 crore buckets. The average capacity of a bucket is 20 litres
