It's a relief for Mumbaikars that the city's water stock that was severely depleted earlier this year has been steadily rising. Due to the rains over the last couple of days, the lake levels have risen by more than 10000 million litres on Sunday.

After the heavy rains on June 28, the water stock rose to 76,833 million litres and on Sunday, data indicated that the figure has further increased to 87648 million litres. The lake levels were depleted due to the delayed monsoon and are still far below the quantity of water the seven lakes had last year and the year before. In 2018, on June 30, the lakes had 2.94 lakh million litres while in 2017, the figure stood at 4.5 lakh million litres.