Mumbai Rains A week\'s rain helps to take city\'s water stock to 72 percent

Mumbai Rains A week's rain helps to take city's water stock to 72 percent

Updated: Aug 16, 2020, 07:28 IST | A correspondent | Mumbai

Water level across five lakes crosses 10 lakh million litres; now we have sufficient stock for the next seven months

The week's spate of heavy rain continued in Kurla’s Nehru Nagar on Saturday. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
The week's spate of heavy rain continued in Kurla’s Nehru Nagar on Saturday. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

With continuous rainfall over Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the water stock in the lakes crossed 10 lakh million litres on Saturday. This water stock is sufficient for seven months of water supply.

The total water capacity of the lakes is 14.47 lakh million litres. If all lakes are filled to capacity by the end of September, the city can look forward to uninterrupted water supply till July 2021. Currently, the water stock has reached 71.72 per cent. The stock in the lakes—Tansa, Upper Vaitarna, Middle Vaitarna, Modak Sagar, Bhatsa—was 37 per cent on August 5.

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