{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_uey57dwtz3pdyagqp3jq","title":"Mumbai Water Cut: BMC Holds Off On 10% Rollback Despite 96.54 Per Cent Lake Stock, Cites El Niño Risk","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/mumbai-water-cut-bmc-holds-off-on-10-rollback-despite-96-54-per-cent-uey57dwtz3","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_uey57dwtz3pdyagqp3jq","seq":761789,"kind":"article","title":"Mumbai Water Cut: BMC Holds Off On 10% Rollback Despite 96.54 Per Cent Lake Stock, Cites El Niño Risk","url":"https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-water-cut-bmc-holds-off-on-10-rollback-despite-9654-per-cent-lake-stock-cites-el-nio-risk","summary":"Mumbai, September 29, 2026: Mumbai’s seven lakes currently hold 13.98 lakh million litres (ML) of water—96.54% of their total capacity—enough to meet the city’s needs until May 17, 2027. However, the looming impact of El Niño could push up temperatures and evaporation, potentially depleting the stock faster than projected. Any decision to withdraw water cuts will be taken only after discussions with the state government, civic authorities clarified at the BMC General Body…","published":"2026-09-29T18:12:07Z","seen":"2026-09-29T20:26:04Z","lang":"en","country":"IN","source":{"id":"kite-freepressjournal-in-e26f41","name":"freepressjournal.in","domain":"freepressjournal.in","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q7735208","name":"The Free Press Journal","type":"newspaper","country":"IN","designations":["newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-freepressjournal-in-e26f41","topics":["mumbai news","topnews","fpj shorts","google"],"entities":[{"id":"Q796295","name":"BMC","type":"org"},{"id":"Q1156","name":"Mumbai","type":"place"},{"id":"Q3720957","name":"El Niño","type":"event"}],"image":"https://media.assettype.com/freepressjournal/2026-09-29/z1ld7fke/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Queen-Of-All-Mayhem-2026-09-29T234132.536.jpg?w=280","story":"st_uey57dwtz3pdyagqp3jq","category":"economy-business","category_p":0.7900000214576721,"sentiment":"negative","tone":-0.6100000143051147,"political":0.07999999821186066}]}