Mumbai: Lakes that supply water to the city at 14.52 per cent

The water level in the lakes supplying water to the city has risen by mere inches in the absence of sustained spells of heavy rain In Mumbai the collective lake levels in the seven reservoirs that supply drinking water to the city are now at 1452 per cent as per the BMC dataAccording to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC data on Sunday the collective lake levels or water stock in the seven reservoirs that supply drinking water to Mumbai is now at 210207 million litres of water or 1452 per centMumbai draws water from Tulsi Tansa Vihar Bhatsa Modak Sagar Upper Vaitarna and Middle VaitarnaAs per the data shared by the civic body the water level in Tansa is at 2862 per cent At ModakSagar 2945 per cent of water stock is availableIn Middle Vaitarna 1841 per cent Upper Vaitarna 0 per cent Bhatsa 1203 per cent Vehar 2263 per cent and Tulsi 3148 per cent of useful water level is availableMeanwhile the India Meteorological Department IMD in its latest Mumbai weather update has predicted a generally cloudy sky with intermittent spells of moderate to heavy rain in Mumbai on SundayThe weather department in its latest Mumbai weather update has predicted a generally cloudy sky with intermittent spells of moderate to heavy rain in city and its suburbs in the next 24 hoursThe maximum temperature in the city is likely to settle at 33 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature will be recorded at 26 degrees CelsiusA high tide of about 445 metres is expected to hit Mumbai at 120 pm today stated Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC The civic body also said that a low tide of about 168 metres is expected at 727 pm todayThe island city recorded 4751 mm of rainfall eastern Mumbai 3623 mm and western Mumbai 1960 mm of rainfall in the 24hour period ending at 8 amMeanwhile heavy rainfall across large parts of India has compensated for the June deficit bringing the overall monsoon precipitation into the surplus categoryAccording to the India Meteorological Department IMD more spells of heavy to very heavy rain are likely over northwest India and the western parts of the peninsular India during the next twothree days and over the northeast during the next five daysIndia the worlds top producer of critical crops such as rice wheat and sugarcane logged a rainfall deficit of 11 percent in June with northwest India recording a shortfall of 33 per centHeavy rain in the first week of July compensated for the shortfall but caused flooding in many northeastern statesSince the fourmonth monsoon season began on June 1 the country has received 2149 mm of rainfall against a normal of 2133 mm according to IMD dataNorthwest India and the southern peninsula have recorded 3 per cent and 13 per cent abovenormal rainfall respectively