Mumbai: As of 6 am on July 6, the seven lakes that supply to Mumbai held 2,44,900 million litres of water, or 16.9% of their live storage capacity of 14,47,363 million litres — up 3.7% in 24 hours — as heavy rains continued to lash catchment areas on Monday.Despite the improvement, reservoir levels remain well below the corresponding period last year, when storage was above 50% of capacity. The current water level, though, is slightly better than the stocks in 2024, when it was at 10.9%.The rise in the level this season is being seen positively by citizens amid water shortage concerns after the BMC imposed a 10% cut earlier this year.Civic officials said they would soon review the situation on water cuts, but it was too early to take a decision on withdrawing the cut. “The rainfall, which we are witnessing now, is kind of abnormal in the backdrop of El Nino, and we cannot be assured that it would rain satisfactorily for the rest of the month,” an official said.