The seven reservoirs, which provide water to Mumbai, have greater than 90 % water inventory now, the official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company stated.
Tulsi is the third reservoir which has overflowed after the Tansa and Modak Sagar dams, as a result of heavy rains of their catchment areas.
This 12 months, the Tulsi lake overflowed virtually 26 days later in comparison with final 12 months, when it turned full on July 20, the official stated.
Tulsi is the smallest of the seven reservoirs that provide potable water to Mumbai and has a storage capability of 8,046 million litres. Town will get 18 million litres of water from the lake day-after-day.”The catchment space of the lake has been receiving rainfall in the previous few days, because of which the lake overflowed on Saturday,” the civic official stated.When the Tulsi lake overflows, its water will get channeled into the Vihar lake, which has not but reached its most capability.The Powai lake, one other reservoir situated within the coronary heart of Mumbai, began overflowing in June, however its water shouldn’t be used for ingesting functions.
Aside from Tulsi and Vihar, the metropolis receives water from the Bhatsa, Tansa, Decrease and Center Vaitarna reservoirs, all situated in neighbouring Thane district, and the Higher Vaitarna dam in Nashik district.
