Overview

• By early Monday, Mumbai’s seven key reservoirs held 1,196,232 million litres of water, or 82.65% of their combined capacity, up 0.79 percentage points since Saturday.
• Modak Sagar has been overflowing since July 9 at a discharge of more than 1,000 cusecs per second after reaching full capacity.
• Upper Vaitarna gates opened on July 5 and Middle Vaitarna gates on July 17 to regulate surging water levels.
• Monsoon-driven inflows have more than doubled lake storage compared with 40.96% at the same time last year, relieving concerns over supply cuts.
• Yellow alerts from the India Meteorological Department guide dam operations and warn of further heavy rain.