In a move that will be welcomed by Mumbaikars, BMC today lifted the water cuts in the city for a month due to the ongoing festival season.

The city has been facing water cuts since June last year due to scanty rainfalls. Currently, residential and commercial users are facing 7 and 30 per cent water cut respectively.

"We are lifting the water cuts from tomorrow for a month keeping in mind the increased requirement of water during festivals like Ramzan, Dahi Handi and Ganesh Chaturthi," BMC commissioner Swadhin Kshatriya told reporters here.

The BMC's decision comes three days after it announced that water cuts in the city would continue till September end as the water crisis was not fully over.

Presently there is 11,07,565 million litres of water in all the six lakes that supply water to the city. However, the requirement is 13,5000 million litres of water.

"Though we are falling short by over two lakh million litres, water stock in the lakes is satisfactory as compared to last year," Kshatriya said adding the civic body would review the situation once again on October 1.

While four lakes - Modak Sagar, Tansa, Vihar and Tulsi - have started overflowing, two other lakes, which are the largest supplier of water - Bhatsa and Upper Vaitarna are falling short by 16 and 36 per cent respectively.

While the city's daily demand is 4,250 million litres the civic body supplies around 3,450 million litres per day.