Despite the city and the catchment areas of the seven lakes not receiving enough rainfall, BMC is mulling withdrawing the 10 per cent water cut. Civic sources said there is enough stock to take back the cut.

According to sources, the decision is likely to be taken in Friday's Standing Committee meeting. While lake levels have risen to above 50 per cent of their total storage capacity, the city is still way behind in collecting stock equivalent to July 18, 2018, when it was at 10,92,207 million litres, compared to the total water stock on Thursday, which stood at 7,35,042 million litres. According to the chart released on Thursday morning, a majority of the lakes had received no rainfall on Wednesday.