A year after it implemented a 10 per cent water cut across the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Friday decided to roll it back. The announcement was made in the civic standing committee meeting. Corporators, however, are skeptical of the move. Low rainfall in the next couple of months will mean water cuts again, they feared.

Even as the lake levels have risen to above 50 per cent of their total storage capacity, the city's water stock is around 23 per cent lower than what it had last year. On July 19, 2018, the stock was 11,10,324 million litres of water as compared to Friday's stock of 7,43,531 million litres. The catchment areas of major lakes that supply water to the city hardly received an average of 1 to 10 mm rainfall on Thursday.