After the city faced water crises in July and August, the continuous rainfall around catchment areas has more than made up for it. For the first time in the last five years, the water level in the seven lakes has reached 14.31 million litres on Wednesday, only a few million litres away from its full capacity of 14.5. The city now has stock for the next 387 days, i.e. till September 2015.

Vihar was the last lake to overflow on August 31, and the BMC is expecting the remaining two lakes, Upper Vaitarna and Bhatsa, to also reach full capacity before the end of monsoon season. File pic