💧 How deep is India's water table?
India's typical monitoring well sits
10.0 m below ground
Median depth to water across 3,094 CGWB
telemetric wells, live from the DWLR network. 273 wells
have water deeper than 40 m down.
shallow deep (40 m+) each dot = a DWLR well
10.0 median depth to water (m)
192 deepest: Kaniyel, Kheda
50% of wells deeper than 10 m
Since the pre-monsoon (February)
The water table has fallen 0.48 m
on average — 1,822 wells fell, 671 rose (of 2,519 with a February reading).
- Channarayapatna_1, Hassan ↓ 94.3 m
- Japaneese Zone_1, ALWAR ↓ 82.7 m
- Honnali_2, Davanagere ↓ 78.1 m
- Sidhlakona Ow Naquim_1, Tumkur ↓ 72.2 m
- Siddapur_4, NIZAMABAD ↓ 71.1 m
Where the table runs deepest
Median depth to water by state.
0.1 m 24.0 m m below ground (median)
Deepest wells
- Kaniyel, Kheda 192.0 m
- Balodhar_Pz-I_1, Banaskantha 179.2 m
- Bhim Bordi, Banaskantha 168.1 m
- Bharatpur(Virpur), Jamnagar 162.6 m
- Mahi_Pz_1, Banaskantha 158.8 m
- Morod, DHAR 149.2 m
Shallowest wells
- Rau Iim_1, INDORE 4.9 m above ground
- Shikarpur Shallow Pz, SOUTH WEST 4.9 m above ground
- Sandesh Vihar Pz_1, NORTH WEST 4.6 m above ground
- Manewal M, LUDHIANA 4.6 m above ground
- Indian Institute Of Science_1, Bangalore Urban 4.5 m above ground
- Tadipatri-pz_1, ANANTAPUR 4.3 m above ground
How deep are India's wells?
Wells by depth to water. 720
sit deeper than 20 m below ground.
- <0 (artesian) 120
- 0–2 78
- 2–5 488
- 5–10 861
- 10–20 826
- 20–40 448
- 40 m+ 273