2025
Scarcity
500-1000 m3/person/year
Published availability is Scarcity for 2025 and Absolute scarcity for 2050.
The two official published periods carry different water-availability classifications.
- 2025 availability
- Scarcity
- 2050 availability
- Absolute scarcity
- CGWB groundwater category
- Over-exploited
What this assessment includes
Included in this result
- Groundwater: Before and after monsoon groundwater bands are available for 2023-24.
- Long-term availability: Both 2025 and 2050 published availability classifications are available.
Not included in this result
- Rainfall: Official rainfall context is not currently integrated into this JalWater result.
- Reservoir or supply context: Official reservoir or municipal-supply context is not currently integrated into this JalWater result.
- Water quality: Official water-quality evidence is not currently integrated into this JalWater result.
Scope
District-level evidence for Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka. Reporting periods: 2023-24, 2025, 2050. Last checked 29 Jun 2026. Neighbourhood, building, borewell, tap-water, and current supply conditions may differ.
Confidence: Moderate
Moderate confidence. The displayed records match Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, and groundwater and long-term availability pairs are comparable within their published periods.
Confidence describes how well the evidence supports this result. It is not a safety, suitability, or city-quality rating.
Why this matters
The later published period has a different classification. JalWater shows that difference as decision context without estimating the years between the two official records.
Groundwater depth does not show how much water is sustainably available, whether taps receive reliable supply, or whether the water is safe to drink.
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Seasonal groundwater bands
Published bands, not point measurements or a trend line.
Year
Before monsoon
After monsoon
2021-22
2 to 5 mbgl2 to 5 mbgl2022-23
2 to 5 mbgl2 to 5 mbgl2023-24
2 to 5 mbgl2 to 5 mbglExact technical bands are shown as published in metres below ground level (mbgl). A lower depth means groundwater was recorded closer to the surface. JalWater does not convert ranges into point measurements, line charts, or trends.
The published range band is the same across these years. JalWater preserves the official published bands instead of inventing a false trend.
2025 and 2050 outlook
Only the two official published periods are shown.
2050
Absolute scarcity
<500 m3/person/year
Only the two published periods are shown. JalWater does not invent years between 2025 and 2050.
CGWB resource enrichment
CGWB classifies all six assessed groundwater units in Bengaluru Urban as over-exploited in the 2024 assessment.
- Category
- Over-exploited
- Stage of extraction
- 186.70%
- Assessment units
- 6
- Period
- 2024 assessment
Recent local context for Bengaluru
Official datasets update slower than local news. News is recent local context and does not change the official data cards.
News report
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News report
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Bengaluru East extracts 378% of its recharge as groundwater crisis grips Karnataka capital’s outskirts
The Indian Express - Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:00:00 GMT
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Verify the evidence
Open the records below for source links, dates, geography, row or page citations, caveats, and file checksums.
Source records and provenance
Source-link fallback: if an original source link fails, use the citation details, source name, publication date, retrieval date, and row/page context shown here.
NITI ICED groundwater-depth band dataset
- Institution
- NITI Aayog
- Publication/dataset
- NITI ICED groundwater-depth band dataset
- Source URL
- https://iced.niti.gov.in/
- Publication date
- 2026-06-25
- Reporting period
- 2023-24
- Retrieval date
- 2026-06-29
- Geography
- Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka
- Citation
- Sheet Water Levels; row 3466; original label "2 to 5 Pre Monsoon (in mbgl)".
- Checksum
- 96c50d6393c551e69574be1d75bd316c085c5906529c0cfa7e5c24bee5117772
- Limitation
- Government dashboard dataset. Values are published as ranges/classifications and may be compiled or derived. JalWater preserves them as published.
NITI ICED groundwater-depth band dataset
- Institution
- NITI Aayog
- Publication/dataset
- NITI ICED groundwater-depth band dataset
- Source URL
- https://iced.niti.gov.in/
- Publication date
- 2026-06-25
- Reporting period
- 2023-24
- Retrieval date
- 2026-06-29
- Geography
- Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka
- Citation
- Sheet Water Levels; row 3496; original label "2 to 5 Post Monsoon (in mbgl)".
- Checksum
- 96c50d6393c551e69574be1d75bd316c085c5906529c0cfa7e5c24bee5117772
- Limitation
- Government dashboard dataset. Values are published as ranges/classifications and may be compiled or derived. JalWater preserves them as published.
NITI ICED per-capita water-availability classification dataset
- Institution
- NITI Aayog
- Publication/dataset
- NITI ICED per-capita water-availability classification dataset
- Source URL
- https://iced.niti.gov.in/
- Publication date
- 2026-06-25
- Reporting period
- 2025
- Retrieval date
- 2026-06-29
- Geography
- Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka
- Citation
- Sheet Water Availability; row 340; original label "Scarcity [500−1000 m3]".
- Checksum
- 78dd6fd51da85ff056c177855dc6690be0b25ac54044484518d74e39ffa1ca1c
- Limitation
- Government dashboard dataset. Values are published as ranges/classifications and may be compiled or derived. JalWater preserves them as published.
NITI ICED per-capita water-availability classification dataset
- Institution
- NITI Aayog
- Publication/dataset
- NITI ICED per-capita water-availability classification dataset
- Source URL
- https://iced.niti.gov.in/
- Publication date
- 2026-06-25
- Reporting period
- 2050
- Retrieval date
- 2026-06-29
- Geography
- Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka
- Citation
- Sheet Water Availability; row 340; original label "Absolute scarcity [<500 m3]".
- Checksum
- 78dd6fd51da85ff056c177855dc6690be0b25ac54044484518d74e39ffa1ca1c
- Limitation
- Government dashboard dataset. Values are published as ranges/classifications and may be compiled or derived. JalWater preserves them as published.
National Compilation on Dynamic Ground Water Resources of India, 2024
- Institution
- Central Ground Water Board
- Publication/dataset
- National Compilation on Dynamic Ground Water Resources of India, 2024
- Source URL
- https://cgwb.gov.in/
- Publication date
- 2024
- Reporting period
- 2024 assessment
- Retrieval date
- 2026-06-29
- Geography
- Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka
- Citation
- Page 179; DYNAMIC GROUND WATER RESOURCES OF INDIA, 2024 - Ground Water Recharge and Current Annual Ground Water Extraction. Category page 226; DYNAMIC GROUND WATER RESOURCES OF INDIA, 2024 - Categorisation of Assessment Units.
- Checksum
- cee459fe1225ab0d529cb69d89476882e8c3a58bdeb6fb9dfc3c7b39b11e57ac
- Limitation
- CGWB 2024 dynamic groundwater resource assessment. Resource data is district/block assessment data, not a live city water reading.