Mumbai: Due to heavy rains in catchment areas, Tulsi Lake, one of the seven lakes that supply water to the City overflowed on July 27, at around 12 noon, according to the BMC release. The lake supplies an average of 18 million litres ( 1.8 crore litres) of water to Mumbai daily.
Mumbai gets 3,800 million litres of drinking water from Modak Sagar, Tulsi, Vihar, Tansa, Bhatsa, upper Vaitharna and middle Vaitharna lakes daily. Even though the rains started late in Maharashtra, the recent heavy downpour in Mumbai and surrounding areas, the level of water in these lakes started rising rapidly. The BMC hopes with the continuous rains, other lakes will also be overflowing in a couple of days.
