With rise in the levels of six odd lakes that supplies potable water to Mumbaikars, the BMC has decided to bring down the domestic water cuts from 20% to 10% from today

Lord Indra – the rain god may be smiling at you and so do the BMC. The civic body has contemplated to reduce the daily water cut from 20 per cent to 10 per cent starting from Thursday, as the copious rains hit the metropolis of late.

Post heavy downpour for over a month, the second lake providing water to the city started overflowing. After Tulsi Lake overflowed on Monday around noon, the Modak Sagar also started overflowing early morning yesterday, around 4.30 am.

According the civic body sources, the current available stock of water would last the city for 186 days. The rain is required for another 180 days to quench Mumbaikar’s thirst throughout 2014.

The total capacity of all the lakes is about 14 lakh million litres, and currently the stock is 47.4 per cent of its full capacity, since the other five lakes are yet short of their overflow marks. Only continuous rainfall would help the city out of a water crisis, BMC informed.

Meanwhile, the commercial water cuts will continue for now. Five-star hotels and malls face 50 per cent water cuts, whereas swimming pools and gardens get no water supply. Additional Municipal Commissioner Rajeev Jalota said, “This is good news for the city, but we are still short of the required water supply. There was a good amount of rainfall at various other lakes.”