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Mumbaikars face 10% water cut from today
Updated On: 09 June, 2009 10:13 AM IST | | A Correspondent
Starting today, Mumbaikars will have to face 10 per cent water cut across the city. The Brinhanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday stated it was forced to impose the cut due to the delayed monsoon and dipping lake level.
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Starting today, Mumbaikars will have tou00a0 face 10 per cent water cut across the city. The Brinhanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday stated it was forced to impose the cut due to the delayed monsoon and dipping lake level.
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Earlier on Friday, the civic body had stated that it would wait till June 15 to see the situation. However, on Monday civic officials from the hydraulic department admitted that dipping lake level is indeed a serious situation.
"Till now we were supplying 3,400 million litres per day (MLD) of water all over the city. But from midnight today, this number has been decreased to 3100 MLD. Thus, it will be about 300 MLD less in the daily water supply," said S Korlekar, Chief engineer, hydraulic department, BMC.
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