BMC increases water supply by 100 million litres

With lakes starting to overflowing, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started providing additional 100 million litres of water per day, the officials said.

"It is good news that two lakes have started overflowing, early this week. But as they are small lakes, the BMC still cannot withdraw the water cuts. The BMC is now providing 3,000 million litres of water against the 2,900 million litres earlier," additional municipal commissioner Aseem Gupta said.

The city needs 4,300 million litres of water per day.

"As Modak Sagar was overflowing, the water was transferred to the Tansa Lake and since then the supply has increased," Gupta said.

Even though the two Lakes - Tulsi and Modak Sagar started overflowing on July 27 and other four lakes are nearing their overflow limit, the BMC has ruled out immediate withdrawal in water cuts.

Presently, all the six lakes together have 6,91,600 million litres of water compared to 7,13,479 million litres at the same time last year.

Residential and commercial users have been facing 15 to 30% water cuts since last June. The BMC has said it would review the situation on August 15.