{"id":60175,"date":"2025-08-20T12:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=60175"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:00:15","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 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the wake of heavy rains in Mumbai over the last few days, Vihar Lake, one of the key sources of potable water for the metropolis, started overflowing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Vihar Lake<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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 <\/span><b>Mithi River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> within the grounds of the <\/span><b>Borivali National Park<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is also <\/span><b>known as Sanjay Gandhi National Park<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in <\/span><b>North Mumbai, Maharashtra.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake was<\/span><b> built from 1856 to 1860 by the British government<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to overcome the drinking water woes of the people of southern Mumbai.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It gets its<\/span><b> water from the Powai-Kanheri hill ranges <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the catchment area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>largest lake in Mumbai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the<\/span><b> Salsette group of islands.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is bordered <\/span><b>between <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>Tulsi Lake and the Powai Lake.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It partly<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">meets the drinking water needs of the South Mumbai region.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It supplies <\/span><b>3% of the Mumbai city\u2019s water requirement<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>after filtration at Bhandup, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where the <\/span><b>large water filtration plant<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is located.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india-news\/amid-heavy-rains-mumbai-s-vihar-lake-overflows-6th-to-be-filled-to-brim-125081801427_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vihar Lake is a man-made reservoir located near Vihar village on the Mithi River in North Mumbai, Maharashtra. 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