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Karnataka |
| Data and Statistics resources for Karnataka |
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  Water survey of the citizens of Bangalore conducted by Biodiversity Conservation India Ltd. |
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Results of the Survey
Press release describing the results
Website of BCIL |
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| A presentation explaining how Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board implemented and uses GIS in managing the city's water system |
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| Click here to View Presentation (Size 12MB) |
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| Environment Action Plan by Bangalore Water Supply and Sewarage Board - to improve how Bangalore manages it water especially sewerage water, so as to not harm the environment |
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| Click here to View Presentation (Size 6MB) |
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Human Development Report for Bidar district, created by PAHELI (Peoples' Audit of Health Education and Livelihoods) |
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| Click here for a toolkit for the survey which contains the questionnaires used in the survey (1.5MB) |
| Click here for the Water portion of the Toolkit |
| Click here for the Sanitation portion of the Toolkit |
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| To read more about PAHELI: |
| http://www.pratham.org/paheli/paheli.php |
| http://www.indiatogether.org/2007/sep/pov-paheli.htm |
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"Status of Groundwater quality in Bangalore and its environs" - A study by the Department of Mines and Geology. The study collected 918 samples from 735 locations across an area of 400 square kilometers of the city and its environs. The samples were collected in March and April of 2003. Testing was done for 25 parameters.
In 370 locations (50.34%), the groundwater was found not suitable for domestic purposes as per the the ISO 10500:1991 standard.278 samples showed higher than permissible nitrate contamination, as high as 747 mg/L in some samples (permissible limit of 50 mg/L). Bacteriological contamination was tested separately at 100 locations that were deemed high-risk, and contamination was found in 74 of the 100 samples.
The fact that as far back as 2003, groundwater quality was already this bad underlines the urgency of the water quality problems in all urban areas. |
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Click here to read about the methodology and the summary results of the survey (Size 1.3MB)
Click here to read the full report including all the locations where the water was tested and the test results (Size 11.8MB) |
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| "Excess Chemical Parameters in Groundwater - Karnataka State" - a 2006 report of the Department of Mines and Geology of the State of Karnataka. 4090 groundwater samples from borewells and open wells used for drinking water supply across the state were tested for fluoride, nitrate, total hardness and total iron. |
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Click here to download the Introduction
Click here to download rest of the report (Size 3.65MB) |
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| The RDPR (Rural Development and Panchayati Raj) Department of the Government of Karnataka did
extensive mapping of groundwater quality in all areas of the state and even deployed the
information on a GIS platform. The information however is not available online currently. IWP does have a hardcopy of this information and may be able to respond to requests for some of this data. |
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| Click here for a research paper that describes this work (Size 4MB) |
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| State Groundwater Profile from the CGWB site. It includes a brief summary of
groundwater conditions, aquifer types, average specific yield of the aquifers,
types of wells dug, their specific capacity and also findings of groundwater
exploration. |
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| http://www.cgwb.gov.in/gwprofiles.html (Click on the state you are interested in, on the map) |
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| The India Water Portal has a Meteorological Data application that has climate parameters on a
.5 by .5 latitude/longitude grid throughout the country, for a 100 years. The data is derived from
a research data set from the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research in the UK. However more
sources of data especially more fine-grained data based on reliable ground measurements is always
good. Here are three such rainfall data sources for Karnataka:
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http://dmc.kar.nic.in/
http://caos.iisc.ernet.in
(Click on the "RAINFO" link to view the application)
http://raitamitra.kar.nic.in/ |
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| The 'Water Resources' portion of the Karnataka State of the Environment Report, 2003. Contains lots of statistics about water related matters in the state. Has maps of major river basins and rainfall distribution across the state. Classifies districts according to overexploitation of groundwater, water quality, efficiency of water use, siltation in water bodies. |
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| A survey of school sanitation in Mysore District, by a group of NGOs including Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement, MYRADA and Vikasana in 2005 |
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Click here for the format used in the survey (Kannada, fonts needed)
Click here for the analysis of the survey results (English) |
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| Website of the Water Resources Department. Contains details of the river systems of Karnataka and a map of the river basins |
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http://waterresources.kar.nic.in/
http://waterresources.kar.nic.in/river_systems.htm |
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| Click here to submit a report, map or other data for inclusion in this section |
