Mumbai: Lakes that supply water to the city at 43 per cent, says BMC

In Mumbai the collective lake levels in the seven reservoirs that supply drinking water to the city are now at 43 per cent as per the BMC dataAccording to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC data on Sunday the collective lake levels or water stock in Mumbai lakes is now at 618754 million litres of water or 4341 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 8018 per cent At ModakSagar 6045 per cent of water stock is availableIn Middle Vaitarna 3922 per cent Upper Vaitarna 1050 per cent Bhatsa 4273 per cent Vehar 7153 per cent and Tulsi 100 per cent of useful water level is availableTulsi Lake one of two lakes that supplies water to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC area began overflowing at 830 am today This is a replay of last years occurrence when the lake began overflowing on July 20 2023 at 128 pm said the civic agency in a communiqueTulsi Lake built in 1879 at Rs 40 lakh is the smallest of the lakes that provide water to Mumbai The lake has a useful water storage capacity of 8046 crore litres 8046 million litres and provides an average of 18 million litres 18 crore litres of water each day The lake is roughly 35 km from the BMC headquartersThe Tulsi lake of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC one of the two lakes that supply water to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation area and are located within the BMC area has started overflowing at 830 am today July 20 2024 Last year also on July 20 2023 itself the lake had started overflowing at around 128 pm BMC said in its statementMeanwhile Mumbai and its suburbs received intermittent heavy spells of rain on SundayThe India Meteorological Department IMD in its latest Mumbai weather update has predicted moderate to heavy rainfall in Mumbai on ThursdayThe weather department in its latest Mumbai weather update has predicted moderate to heavy rain in city and suburbs Possibility of very heavy rain at isolated places in the next 24 hoursThe Regional Meteorological Centre RMC in Mumbai has issued a yellow alert for heavy rainfall in the city effective until July 24 Additionally the weather department has issued an yellow alert for heavy rains at isolated locations in Thane and Palghar districts todayThe maximum temperature in the city is likely to settle at 29 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature will be recorded at 24 degrees CelsiusA high tide of about 444 metres is expected to hit Mumbai at 1210 pm today stated Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC The civic body also said that a low tide of about 179 metres is expected at 615 pm todayThe island city recorded 71 mm of rainfall eastern Mumbai 72 mm and western Mumbai 59 mm of rainfall in the 24hour period ending at 8 amMumbai and its surrounding areas have been receiving intermittent heavy showers since the last few days