Tulsi Lake overflowed in Mumbai

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has reported that Tulsi lake located inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park began to overflow at 11 am. Until 6 am on Friday. The lake is one of eight that supply water all over Mumbai.

Tulsi lake had 94.07% useful water content, or 7,569 million litres water content, in comparison to 79.42% useful water content around the same time last year. In the 24 hours, until 6 am on Friday, Tulsi’s catchment area received 67mm rainfall, and its water level rose by 0.15 metres during this time.

Despite the heavy rainfall recorded in Mumbai overnight, the water level in the seven lakes that supply drinking water to the city remained at 7.24% of its total capacity, in comparison to 25.80% on the same day in 2020, and 48.80% on the same day in 2019.

Ajay Rathor, the chief engineer of BMC’s hydraulics department, said, “For a week now, cumulative water available in the seven lakes has not increased, and remains at about 17%. The catchment area has not received sufficient rainfall. We will observe the lake levels closely for the next two to three days, and then decide the future course of action for the remaining year. A decision about whether to impose a water cut will be taken after this.”

The total amount of water in all seven lakes in the city is presently 249,459ML, out of the total capacity of 1,447,363ML. On Saturday last week, the water level in the city’s lakes was at 17,43%, or 252,323ML, in comparison to 22.46% on the same day last year, and 43.92% on the same day in 2019.

Mumbai receives its drinking water supply from Upper Vaitarna, Modak Sagar, Tansa, Middle Vaitarna, Bhatsa, Vihar, and Tulsi lakes, whose total water capacity is 1,447,363ML. BMC supplies 3,850 million litres of water per day to the city.

Until 6 am on Friday, Upper Vaitarna had 0% useful water content, Modak Sagar had 25.44% useful water content, Tansa had 30.35% useful water content, Middle Vaitarna had 10.08% useful water content, Bhatsa had 17.50% useful water content, and Vihar had 72.52% useful water content.