Maharashtra gov urges people not to step out of homes unless necessary amid heavy rainfall warning

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Mumbai received an average 100 mm rainfall in 24 hours till 8 am on Thursday, while neighbouring Thane city received a whopping 213.84 mm rainfall during that period. Some coastal districts, including Raigad and Ratnagiri, have been receiving incessant rainfall, officials said. Meanwhile, Tulsi lake, one of the seven reservoirs supplying drinking water to Mumbai, overflowed on Thursday following heavy rains in the city and suburbs, a civic official said. Earlier this month, the Powai lake, another reservoir located in the heart of Mumbai, started overflowing, but its water is not used for drinking purpose. The Tulsi lake, located in the densely forested Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), started overflowing at 1.25 am on Thursday, the official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. This is expected to bring relief to citizens facing 10 per cent water cut since the beginning of this month.

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Tulsi is the smallest of the seven reservoirs that supply potable water to Mumbai and has a storage capacity of 8,046 million litres. The city gets 18 million litres of water from the lake every day. Earlier today, a massive landslide at Irshalwadi village in Raigad district claimed the lives of at least 10 villagers and many are still feared trapped, officials said. «The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has already issued a heavy rainfall warning for some districts in the state. There has been a downpour for the last two days as well. The citizens should not venture out unnecessarily,» the government said in its