Following heavy rains, the BMC cancels a 10% water cut

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced on Friday that it has decided to cancel the city's 10% water cut because the catchment areas have received adequate rainfall and there is sufficient water stock in lakes. Mumbai's catchment areas experienced low rainfall in June 2022. The water level in each of the seven lakes was dropping by the day. To avoid future water shortages, the BMC has imposed a 10% water cut in Mumbai beginning on June 27. 

 

However, catchment areas received heavy rainfall during the first week of July. BMC now controls 25% of the water stock in the lakes. As a result, the 10% water cut has been postponed until July 8. The lakes of Upper Vaitarna, Modak Sagar, Tanasa, Madhya Vaitarna, Bhatsa, Vihar, and Tulsi provide potable water to Mumbai. In a year, Mumbai requires 14,47,363 million litres (ML). The BMC provides Mumbai with 3,850 MLD.

 

On the other hand, lakes had 131,770 ML of water stock on June 27. which accounted for 9.10% of total stock However, as of July 8, BMC had 375,514 ML (25.94 percent) water stock in all seven of its lakes. On June 29, all lakes had 10.16 percent water stock. On July 7, it was raised to 19.08 percent. Between June 29 and July 7, water stock increased by 129,123 ML (8.92%), and by 99,395 ML (6.86%) between July 7-8. As of Friday, the lakes had enough water for 108 days.

 

The BMC administration has urged citizens to use water wisely, even though rainfall is abundant in catchment areas. Former BJP corporators Vinod Mishra, Kamlesh Yadav, and Abhijit Samant met with BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal on Wednesday and requested that the water cut in Mumbai be lifted. "On paper, the BMC declared a 10% water cut, but in reality, it was 30% in some areas. People used to come in and complain about the lack of water. As a result, we met with the Commissioner and requested that the water cut be lifted "Vinod Mishra stated

 

 

 

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