Lake levels rise from 11% to 40% in just 10 days

Mumbai: The water stock in the seven lakes supplying the city has shot up from 11% to 40% since the beginning of the month. Ten days ago, the total water stock in the lakes was only about 1.6 lakh million litres, or 11% of their full capacity of about 14.5 lakh million litres.

- Richa Pinto

With the bigger of the lakes, located outside Mumbai, getting heavy rainfall, the combined water stock of all seven has shot up to 5.8 lakh million litres, or 40% of the annual total. In comparison, on July 11 last year, the combined water stock was 2.5 lakh million litres, or 17.6% of the annual total.