Mumbaikars had a tough time moving around the city when they woke up to overflooded roads on Monday as the financial capital recorded the second highest rainfall on a July day in a decade.
People were seen wading through flooded streets to reach their places of work as the rain mayhem led to inundation of many low-lying areas in the city impacting vehicular movement. Some areas in Mumbai received more than 300 mm of rainfall in just six hours that is 10% of city’s annual rainfall.
However, the silver lining amid record heavy rainfall is Mumbai’s useful water stock in reservoirs increased by 4% in just 24 hours, hinting the city may not see water crisis in the near term.
Though the stock reached 18.73% on July 8, the water level in these reservoirs is still below historically when it was at 21.57% in July 2023 and 25.94% in 2022.
The collective water stock in the seven reservoirs has now been recorded to be at 2,71,147 million litres, as of 6 am on July 8. Seven reservoirs that supply water to Mumbai include Bhatsa, Upper Vaitarna, Middle Vaitarna, Tansa, Modak Sagar, Vihar and Tulsi.
On Sunday, the water levels were noted at 14.52% and at 10.8% on Saturday. On Friday, drinking water stock for Mumbai was at 1,30,346 million litres or 9.01%.
The water stock level has significantly come down as compared to the last few years. In July of 2023 and 2022, the water stock level was recorded to be at 17.99% and 14.80% respectively.
Heavy Rains Recorded in July, 2024
The IMD recordings showed that on July 8 till 2.30am, the rainfall recorded by the Santacruz observatory was 40.9 mm, which surged to 210.9 mm by 5.30 am. Meanwhile, the remaining 57 mm of rains was recorded between 5.30am to 8.30am.
This was the second highest July day rainfall in a decade.
Rainfall above 204.5 mm is categorised as extremely heavy rains, whereas that recorded between 64.5mm-115.5mm is categorised as heavy rains.
On July 2, 2019, the highest one day rainfall was recorded at 375.2 mm.
The highest rainfall of all time for July was recorded on July 26, 2005 at 944.2 mm.
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