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In Mumbai by Rain hits BMC rolls out 15% water cut

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  • In Mumbai by Rain hits BMC rolls out 15% water cut

    Yesterday when Mumbai got its first good rain of the season, the municipal corporation announced water cuts across the city. For at least a fortnight, beginning Thursday, the duration of the water supply will be reduced by 20%, which should translate into a 10-15% drop in supply.

    The 20% cut, civic officials explained, will be in the duration of the supply. So, if a housing society got water for three hours (or 180 minutes), its supply will now be restricted to about 2.5 hours (or 36 minutes less). By official estimates, this will cause a water cut of 10-15%.The city needs 12.5 lakh million litres of water in the lakes to see it through the year; currently, they have 1.1 lakh million litres left. By this time last year, the catchment areas had received an average of 800mm of rain; this year, they have received just 150mm.

    "Though we are approving the water cuts, the BMC must plan for such a situation in advance. In 2009, when we suffered a similar crisis, the civic body decided to clean and maintain all borewells, but nothing has been done. The rainwater-harvesting scheme too exists only on paper," said Shiv Sena corporator Trishna Vishwasrao. Corporators want the areas at the far end of the distribution network to be provided water tankers because the pressure of the supply to them will be low during the cuts.
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