Now, city will get 200 ML less per day

 Water supply to Mumbai will be reduced by at least 200 million litres daily (MLD) in the coming 48 hours.

The municipal corporation, which has already imposed a steep cut, has now decided to ration the supply at source, bemoaning slack rainfall in catchments. Though there is enough water to supply to the city, the civic body is worried about maintaining supply post monsoon in case it does not rain enough.

Senior civic officials said that less water will be drawn from the Upper Vaitarna-Modak Sagar-Tansa system in order to stock water in these reservoirs for the trying times ahead. While the catchments of these reservoirs received some rain in the last few days, civic officials from the hydrualic department said that the lake levels have not increased satisfactorily.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now begun isolating one of the mains which carries water from these reservoirs to Mumbai. The isolation is being done to conserve water in these reservoirs, deputy municipal commissioner Pramod Charankar said. The isolation work will reduce supply from these reservoirs from the present 1,400 MLD to at least 1,200 MLD, civic officials said.