Tribune News Service
Mumbai, June 27
For the first time in 40 years, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been forced to dip into the city’s reserve stock of water as the monsoons have played truant.
“The BMC has made arrangements to supply water from the reserve stock which will last till the end of July,” the civic body said in a statement released here today. The BMC said it supplied 3750 million litres of water daily to Mumbai as against the actual demand of 4200 mld. The statement added that the seven reservoirs — Modak Sagar, Tansa, Vihar, Tulsi, Upper Vaitarna, Bhatsa and Middle Vaitarna — which supply water to the city were reaching dead storage levels.
The amount of water left in the reservoirs is just five per cent of their capacity, according to the BMC.
The city’s reservoirs have just 71,574 million litres left now. In comparison, the amount of water last year was 270,668 million litres (18.70%), while in 2017 it was 351,081 million litres (24.26 per cent).
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