What is Mumbai lakes now have 90.44 percent of their capacity filled with water.?
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Mumbai lakes : Mumbai draws water from Tulsi, Tansa, Vihar, Bhatsa, Modak Sagar, Upper Vaitarna, and Middle Vaitarna
According to BMC data, the combined lake levels in Mumbai’s seven drinking water reservoirs are currently 90% of their total.
As of this Thursday, the combined lake levels, or water stock, in the Mumbai lakes was at 13,09,043 million litres, or 90.44 percent, according to figures from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Mumbai gets its water from the Upper and Middle Vaitarnas, Bhatsa, Tansa, Vihar, Tulsi, and Modak Sagar.
The civic body’s statistics on the Mumbai lakes indicates that Tansa’s water level is 99.30 percent. All of the water stock is available in Modak-Sagar.
There is 100% of usable water available in Vihar, 100% in Bhatsa, 100% in Middle Vaitarna, 100% in Upper Vaitarna, and 95.76% in Tulsi.
On July 4, Middle Vaitarna Lake, another lake that supplies water to Mumbai, began to flood due to severe rainfall. Rainfall was so heavy that on July 25, Lakes Vihar and Modak Sagar began to flood. Tansa Lake overflowed at 4 p.m. on July 24, bringing the total volume of water in all seven reservoirs to 17 days in a single day.
Tansa Lake, in the Thane district of Shahpur, supplies over 400 million gallons of water to Mumbai annually. It spilled on July 26, 2024.
According to a statement from the civic organization, Tulsi Lake, one of the two lakes that directly supplies water to the BMC, began to overflow on July 20 at around 8:30 am, resembling the occurrence that happened on the same day last year at 1:28 pm.
In the meantime, light to moderate rainfall is expected on Thursday, according to the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) most recent Mumbai weather report.
According to the weather bureau’s most recent Mumbai weather report, there will be “light to moderate rain in the city and its suburbs” over the course of the following day.
It is anticipated that the city would have a maximum temperature of 32 degrees Celsius and a low temperature of 26 degrees Celsius.
Mumbai is predicted to have a high tide of roughly 4.18 meters today at 2:22 PM, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Additionally, the civic authority announced that at 8:22 p.m. tonight, a low tide of almost 1.27 meters is predicted.
Mumbai lakes now have 90.44 percent of their capacity filled with water.
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