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News: Tulsi Lake and Vihar Lake have begun overflowing after heavy rain in Mumbai.
About Tulsi Lake and Vihar Lake
- Location: Tulsi Lake and Vihar Lake are located in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
- They are Mumbai’s smallest potable water-supplying lakes.
- About Tulsi Lake:
- It is Mumbai’s smallest man-made reservoir.
- It is located within the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
- Its water was formally channeled into the city by the then-Governor, Sir Richard Temple Bart, on March 15, 1879.
- It is one of the seven lakes supplying drinking water to Mumbai.
- Catchment area: It has a catchment area of about 6.76 sq. km and a water spread area of around 1.35 sq. km when full.
- Storage capacity: It has a live storage capacity of 8,046 million litres and supplies an average of 18 million litres of water every day.
- About Vihar Lake:
- It is the second-smallest lake reservoir.
- It is the oldest man-made reservoir in the city which was commissioned in 1860.
- Storage capacity: It has a storage capacity of 27,698 million litres, supplying 90 million litres of water to the city every day.
- Water overflowing from Tulsi Lake naturally flows into Vihar Lake, helping maintain the interconnected water management system that serves the city.
- The overflow from both Tulsi and Vihar lakes drains directly into the Mithi River, which cuts through the centre of Mumbai before emptying into the Arabian Sea.
