Mumbai: Lake levels in seven reservoirs that supply water to city at 36.97 pc

In Mumbai the collective water stock in the seven reservoirs that supply drinking water to the city is now 3697 per cent as per the BMC dataAccording to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC data on Wednesday the collective water stock in the seven reservoirs that supply drinking water to Mumbai is now at 535116 million litre of water or 3697 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 6807 per cent At ModakSagar 5999 per cent of water stock is availableIn Middle Vaitarna 4959 per cent Upper Vaitarna 1321 per cent Bhatsa 2942 per cent Vihar 5512 per cent and Tulsi 8478 per cent of useful water level is availableHeavy rains lashed parts of Mumbai on Wednesday morning and the weather department has issued an orange alert for the city predicting heavy to very heavy showers at some places during the dayTrain services on the PanvelBelapur Harbour Line route were affected to a point failure at Panvel at 940 am Central Railways chief public relations officer Shivraj Manaspure told news agency PTIThe official said train services on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus CSMTBelapur route were running Many commuters of the Central railway claimed the trains were running 1015 minutes lateThe Western Railway authorities said their services were normalThere was no report of any major waterlogging early in the morning a civic official told PTIBus services of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport BEST undertaking were running as per their proper routes and there was no diversion a civic official told PTIThe India Meteorological Departments IMD Mumbai centre on Tuesday issued an orange alert for Mumbai and Thane districts predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places on WednesdayIt issued a red alert for neighbouring Raigad and Palghar districts forecasting heavy to very rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy rain at isolated placesA civic official said the IMD Mumbai in its daily weather forecast predicted heavy rainfall in the city and suburbs with a possibility of very heavy rainfall at a few places in the next 24 hoursThere will be a high tide of 423 meters in the sea at 123 pm as per the local civic bodyThe island city eastern and western suburbs received an average rainfall of 4742 mm 5004 mm and 5099 mm respectively in the 24hour period ending at 830 am Wednesday