Ahmedabad Water Facts

Ahmedabad's water state in quotable numbers. Every fact has a source, a date, and a methodology link. Organised by freshness: today's live data, this year's government releases, historical milestones, and structural infrastructure.

Last updated: 15 Oct 2026, 05:30 am

Live reservoir storage, refill rates, monsoon catchment context, and the urban supply chain that draws from them.

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Most of the city's water comes down one canal

84% of AMC's 1,850 MLD from the Narmada Main Canal

AMC's own source table puts 1,550 of the 1,850 MLD it draws a day on three offtakes of the Narmada Main Canal, which carries water from Sardar Sarovar. The Mahi supplies 200 MLD and borewells 100. The Sabarmati, the river the city was founded on, is not in the table at all.

AMC Budget 2026-27, pp.63-64-As of 1 Feb 2026
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Three treatment plants carry the city

1,750MLD treatment capacity; 2,700 with the works under way or planned

Kotarpur, Jaspur and Raska. A 400 MLD plant at Kotarpur under AMRUT 2.0 is scheduled for 16 October 2026 in MoHUA's status list; a 200 MLD addition at Jaspur has been described as in progress in five budgets without a date.

AMC Budget 2026-27, p.64-As of 1 Feb 2026
Historical - 2026Supply
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AMC's own borewells

100MLD from 555 borewells, of 315 MLD capacity

The city's own groundwater draw, as AMC states it. Private borewells are not in any AMC figure.

AMC Budget 2026-27, p.63-As of 1 Feb 2026
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Sardar Sarovar on the day of this snapshot

99.55% of live capacity on 2026-10-15; 14,291 cusecs into the Narmada Main Canal

The dam that supplies most of the city's water, from the state water department's daily report. It is a four-state project; Ahmedabad's share of its storage is not published. The dashboard's reservoir cards carry the daily series.

Gujarat NWRWS&K daily dam report-As of 1 Oct 2026
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A normal year's rain

805.1mm a year, IMD gridded data at 23.0 N 72.5 E (1970-2020 mean)

IMD's own Ahmedabad observatory normal is 783.6 mm (1991-2020). On this grid cell, July and August bring 68% of a normal year's rain.

India Meteorological Department-As of 15 Oct 2026

Methodology & sources

Every number on this page is sourced from a publicly available dataset or official release. Live figures are refreshed daily from government monitoring feeds; annual figures show their vintage year; historical and structural figures are reference data with dated provenance.

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