Archive · 29 Sep 2025
Mumbai Lakes Overflow; BMC Struggles to Store Water
Mumbai's lakes are full of water due to heavy rain.
The city gets its water from these lakes.
Despite the rain, the lakes can't hold all the extra water, so it flows away.
The BMC can't store more water because there's too much of it, and building more storage would be very expensive.
They are working on a project to capture extra water from one lake to use it later.
This should help save water in the future.
Mumbai's seven lakes are at 97.57% capacity despite heavy rainfall.
BMC supplies 3,850 million litres of water daily.
The overall water stock dipped by 2 percentage points in the last 24 hours.
Surplus water from the lakes is getting washed away because the existing storage is full.
A project is underway to capture 200 MLD of excess water from Vihar Lake by 2027.
- Who
- Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Mumbai residents
- What
- Lakes in Mumbai are overflowing, and the BMC is struggling to store the excess water.
- When
- As of Monday morning; with rainfall in the last 24 hours.
- Where
- Mumbai and surrounding areas
- Why
- Heavy rainfall, leading to the overflow of the city's lakes, and the limitations of the BMC's current water storage infrastructure.
- Water Source
- Seven Lakes (Tansa, Bhatsa, Tulsi, Vihar, Upper Vaitarna, Middle Vaitarna, Modak Sagar)
- Lake Capacity
- 14.47 lakh million litres (total)
- Water Stock (Monday)
- 97.57%
- Daily Water Supply
- 3,850 million litres (MLD)
- Vihar Lake Project
- Aims to capture 200 MLD of surplus water, operational by 2027