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The list is compiled from the 2011 India Census Report published by Government of India. [2] [3] The rank is based on the percentage of households which have access to safe drinking water. Kerala ranked highest with 97.6%, while Andhra has the worst rank with only 33.5% households having access to safe drinking water. National average stands at ...
National Water Quality Assessment Data Warehouse: Large amounts of georeferenced data about water quality. Includes ground and surfacewater sampling data, discharges and health information. OpenTopography: OpenTopography facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources.
Puri became the first city in India to get a piped 24 hour continuous drinking water quality water supply. [17] Trivandrum is the largest Indian city and the only million agglomeration that enjoys uninterrupted hygienic water supply. [5] [better source needed] Chennai has two desalination plants: the Nemmeli and Minjur. [18]
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India [1] [2] or data.gov.in is a platform for supporting Open data initiative of Government of India. This portal is a single-point access to datasets, documents, services, tools and applications published by ministries, departments and organisations of the Government of India .
India accounts for 18% of the world population and about 4% of the world’s water resources. One of the solutions to solve the country’s water woes is to create Indian Rivers Inter-link.c [2] India has been successful in creating live water storage capacity of about 253 billion cubic meter(BCM) so far.
Water pollution is a major environmental issue in India. The largest source of water pollution in India is untreated sewage. [1] Other sources of pollution include agricultural runoff and unregulated small-scale industry. Most rivers, lakes and surface water in India are polluted due to industries, untreated sewage and solid wastes.
India experiences an average precipitation of 1,170 millimetres (46 in) per year, or about 4,000 cubic kilometres (960 cu mi) of rains annually or about 1,720 cubic metres (61,000 cu ft) of fresh water per person every year. [1] India accounts for 18% of the world's population and about 4% of the world's water resources.
Water loss is a critical global problem and according to the World Bank, around 45 million m 3 of water is lost every day which accounts to over US$3 billion every year. [4] Asia alone loses half of its distribution water due to leakages in pipes. [5]