{"id":60175,"date":"2026-07-08T11:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=60175"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:30:26","slug":"vihar-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vihar-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Vihar Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Vihar Lake Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Vihar lake, one of the seven reservoirs supplying drinking water to Mumbai, started overflowing following heavy rainfall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Vihar Lake<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>man-made reservoir<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located near Vihar village on the Mithi River within the grounds of the Borivali National Park in North <\/span><b>Mumbai, Maharashtra.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake was <\/span><b>built from 1856 to 1860<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the British government to overcome the drinking water woes of the people of southern Mumbai.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It gets its water from <\/span><b>the Powai-Kanheri hill ranges<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the catchment area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the largest lake in Mumbai in the Salsette group of islands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is bordered between the <\/span><b>Tulsi Lake and the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/powai-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\">Powai Lake<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It partly meets the drinking water needs of the South Mumbai region.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It supplies 3% of the Mumbai city\u2019s water requirement, after filtration at Bhandup, where the large water filtration plant is located.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/amid-heavy-rains-vihar-lake-supplying-water-to-mumbai-overflows\/2980299\/?amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vihar Lake is a man-made reservoir located near Vihar village on the Mithi River within the grounds of the Borivali National Park in North Mumbai, Maharashtra. Read more about Vihar Lake, Location, Area, Histroy, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":60186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23,2271],"class_list":["post-60175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-vihar-lake","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112031,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60175\/revisions\/112031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}