Mumbai: This year, the monsoon will be reaching Mumbai late, and the city, it is expected, will receive lesser rain. The Skymet has predicted that the upcoming Monsoon will be ‘below normal’. In terms of percentage, the city will receive 93% rain (+/-4%) of the long period average (LPA) of 887 mm for the four-month period from June to September due to the El Niño conditions.
“The Mumbai city receives water supply from seven lakes – Tansa, Bhatsa, Upper Vaitarna, Modak Sagar, Vihar, Middle Vaitarna and Tulsi. On April 5, the water stock in all the seven lakes was nearly 3,83,132 ML live storage at present. It is still three months to go for the monsoon.
The water stored in the lakes are sufficient till the end of July. So, we have made a strategy to supply the water wisely with the on-going 10 per cent water-cut,” said an official from the hydraulic department, BMC. The corporation supplies nearly 3,420 ML every day. “If the daily water requirement is calculated with the current water stock in all the lakes, then the city has water stock for more than 100 days,” a civic official said.
