With the rains playing truant and water levels in the lakes dipping further, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started supplying water to citizens from the reserve stock, officials said on Thursday. But as this reserve stock will last only till the end of July, the civic body has appealed to citizens to use water judiciously.

Mumbai's water supply comes from seven reservoirs: Modak Sagar, Tansa lake, Vihar lake, Tulsi lake, Upper Vaitarna, Bhatsa and Middle Vaitarna. The BMC supplies 3,750 million litres of water every day to residents of the island city and suburbs, which still falls short of the actual demand for 4,200 million litres.