Overview
- Official Bhandup Complex data shows combined useful live storage in Mumbai’s seven supply reservoirs fell to about 6.93% (100,279 ML) on Monday, marking a steady decline from 7.31% on June 27 and 7.08% on June 28.
- Upper Vaitarna is below its lower drawdown level and is recorded with zero usable live storage, prompting controlled release operations and reserve-drawdown measures there.
- The Maharashtra irrigation department approved release of roughly 233,000 million litres of reserve water from Upper Vaitarna and Bhatsa, and civic authorities have begun drawing from those reserve stocks.
- Smaller city lakes such as Vihar and Tulsi show much higher percentages of usable storage while major catchment reservoirs like Bhatsa, Tansa, Middle Vaitarna and Upper Vaitarna remain critically low because of uneven rainfall.
- BMC has kept a 10% citywide cut and a 20% industrial/commercial reduction in place and warned that larger cuts or more restrictions on construction sites, pools and high‑use customers could follow if catchment inflows do not improve; the system normally supplies about 4,000 million litres per day.