Water supply cut may continue next month

MUMBAI: With no improvement in lake levels, civic officials fear that they may have to continue with the cut in water supply next month as well.
According to the BMC's data, rainfall in the catchment areas, where the six lakes supplying water to the city are situated, has been scarce as a result of which, there has been no drastic change in the levels of water in the lakes.A senior official of the hydraulics department said, "The catchment areas have not witnessed persistent rainfall. If this continues, we will have to extend water cuts. Until yesterday, the catchment areas hardly received any rainfall." which is a major cause for concern."
The civic body data states on Saturday, Bhatsa, the largest supplier of water to Mumbai, received a mere 4mm of rainfall, while Tansa and Vihar received 4.4mm and 3.2mm rainfall. Water levels in most lakes have hardly increased. The level of Modak Sagar, which stood at 157mm till Friday, rose to 159mm, but there was no rise in the levels of Tansa and Vihar. But Upper Vaitarna lake, where the water level had been below the minimum level of 595mm, received 13mm of rainfall, following which its level rose to 595.74mm on Saturday.It can now supply 7,440 million litre useable water.