Mumbai’s water stock has started showing improvement after continuous spells of heavy rainfall across the city and surrounding regions over the past few days. The seven reservoirs supplying drinking water to Mumbai reached 13.19 per cent of their total useful live storage capacity as of 6 am on Sunday, July 5, according to data released by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

The combined useful live storage across the seven lakes increased to 1,90,898 million litres against the total capacity of 14,47,363 million litres.