BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation Staring At Severe Water Crises As Lakes Dry Up

Mumbai: In an ominous statement, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday warned of an impending water crisis looming over the country’s commercial capital owing to delayed monsoon. Left with barely 4.95 per cent water stocks in all the lakes, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation has now started using its precious water reserves to quench the thirst of the city’s 17 million people. “The civic administration has made arrangements of supplying water to the citizens up to July-end using reserve stocks of water. All are requested to cooperate and the citizens must use water carefully,” the BMC said in an official appeal.

Painting a dry picture, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation said as on Thursday, the amount of water left in all the lakes was a measly 71,574 million litre (4.95 per cent). The comparative figure last year was 270,668 ML (18.70 per cent) while in 2017 it was 351,081 ML (24.26 per cent), indicating a huge shortfall. For comfortable round-the-year supply, the BMC said it needed at least 1,447,363 ML water stocks. (IANS)

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