With 95% lake levels BMC withdraws its 10% water cut

Mumbai:

BMC

on Friday announced withdrawal of a 10%

water

cut from Saturday as stock in the seven lakes supplying potable water to Mumbai increased to 95.2% of their total capacity.

The civic body is expecting a further increase in water level due to the ongoing rain spell in catchment areas.

BMC had imposed the

cut

from August 5 due to poor

rainfall

in June-July. But catchment areas received good rainfall in the last four weeks. BMC recently reduced the cut from 20% to 10%. Five of the lakes Bhatsa, Tansa, Upper Vaitarna, Middle Vaitarna and Lower Vaitarna (Modak Sagar) are in Thane, Palghar and Nashik districts. These lakes supply 97% of nearly 14.5 lakh million litres the city needs every year. The remaining 3% is supplied by Vihar and Tulsi, within city limits, at Sanjay Gandhi National Park. The stock in the seven lakes till Friday morning was 13.8 lakh million litres.

Tulsi, Vihar, Tansa and Modak Sagar have been overflowing for many days. The lakes supply 3,850 million litres to the city daily.