Hyderabad tanker demand
Hyderabad is one of the few Indian cities where the water utility runs the tanker fleet itself and publishes the record. HMWSSB logs every booking and every delivery by division and section, so this page shows measured demand rather than a surveyed price.
When Hyderabad books tankers
Mean bookings per calendar month across the series. Demand peaks in Jun at 90,946 and falls to 30,421 in Oct: a 2.99x swing between the hot-season peak and the post-monsoon trough. Bookings climb from February and stay high through June, then collapse once the monsoon is established.
Where the demand sits
The three busiest sections - MADHAPUR, KONDAPUR (DIV 15) and HAFEEZPET (DIV 15), all in Division 15 - account for 25.8% of every tanker booked in the city. This is the IT corridor, not the historic core.
Top sections
| Section | Div | Bookings | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| MADHAPUR | 15 | 1,35,332 | 10.3% |
| KONDAPUR (DIV 15) | 15 | 1,25,555 | 9.5% |
| HAFEEZPET (DIV 15) | 15 | 79,150 | 6.0% |
| BANJARA HILLS | 6 | 61,371 | 4.7% |
| KPHB | 9 | 54,835 | 4.2% |
| NIZAMPET (PD 7) | 23 | 46,313 | 3.5% |
| JUBILEE HILLS | 6 | 45,888 | 3.5% |
| PRAGATHINAGAR (PD 7) | 23 | 38,436 | 2.9% |
| MANIKONDA (DIV 18) | 18 | 37,359 | 2.8% |
| S.R.NAGAR | 6 | 36,164 | 2.7% |
Top divisions
| Division | Sections | Bookings | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Division 15 | 11 | 4,25,253 | 32.3% |
| Division 6 | 12 | 2,58,762 | 19.7% |
| Division 9 | 13 | 1,68,957 | 12.8% |
| Division 23 | 4 | 85,808 | 6.5% |
| Division 18 | 2 | 49,705 | 3.8% |
| Division 3 | 14 | 45,393 | 3.4% |
What this data does not tell you
No prices. HMWSSB publishes bookings and deliveries, not what a household paid. Unlike Bengaluru, we cannot show a tanker price for Hyderabad - and the private tanker market that operates alongside the utility fleet is not in this ledger at all.
Sections are not wards."Section" is HMWSSB's own operational unit, not a GHMC ward, and no public mapping between the two exists. Booking counts therefore cannot be joined to ward population or to any equity denominator.
The series stops. Series runs Jan 2022 to Feb 2024. No known public release after that; the Headwaters entry opencity-hyderabad-tankers watches for one.
Empty upstream file: Hyderabad Water Supply Through Tankers for Dec 2022 - published but containing no rows, so 25 of 26 months in the window carry data.
Source: HMWSSB tanker bookings and deliveries - open (per OpenCity dataset page); underlying data is HMWSSB's, digitised by OpenCity. Retrieved 2026-07-26.
What the utility bills, and what it collects
HMWSSB publishes its own billing ledger monthly, on the same division and section units as the tanker record above. That makes the two comparable - the only city on this platform where a utility's billed base and its tanker demand can be read against each other.
These are rupees, but HMWSSB does not say so. The dataset labels its columns only "total demand" and "total amount collected", with no unit anywhere. Division settles it: in Jun 2026 the board billed 1,47,86,22,872 across 15,46,853 connections, which is about Rs 956 per connection per month. As rupees that is an ordinary water bill. As thousands it would be over nine lakh a month per connection, as lakhs over nine crore. So rupees is the only reading that survives, and we state it as an inference from magnitude rather than as a published unit.
Figures are shown in crore for legibility. The underlying file keeps the raw published numbers with no conversion applied.
Tanker bookings per piped connection
198 of 201 tanker sections join to the billing ledger on division and section. Bookings are the full tanker series; connections are the last month each section reported them, dated per row.
| Section | Bookings | Connections | As of | Per connection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KONDAPUR (DIV 15) | 1,25,555 | 9,468 | 2026-01 | 13.26 |
| HAFEEZPET (DIV 15) | 79,150 | 6,837 | 2024-09 | 11.58 |
| NIZAMPET (PD 7) | 46,313 | 4,632 | 2024-09 | 10.00 |
| MADHAPUR | 1,35,332 | 13,806 | 2024-09 | 9.80 |
| JUBILEE HILLS | 45,888 | 6,805 | 2026-01 | 6.74 |
| BANJARA HILLS | 61,371 | 11,031 | 2026-01 | 5.56 |
| KPHB | 54,835 | 9,955 | 2026-01 | 5.51 |
| PRAGATHINAGAR (PD 7) | 38,436 | 7,164 | 2024-09 | 5.37 |
| S.R.NAGAR | 36,164 | 7,159 | 2026-01 | 5.05 |
| Doyens section | 19,804 | 4,757 | 2026-01 | 4.16 |
| SOMAJIGUDA | 25,382 | 6,147 | 2026-01 | 4.13 |
| BALAJINAGAR (DIV 9) | 32,054 | 8,000 | 2026-01 | 4.01 |
| BHAGYANAGAR | 24,477 | 6,409 | 2026-01 | 3.82 |
| GACHIBOWLI (DIV 15) | 28,953 | 7,865 | 2026-01 | 3.68 |
| FATHER BALAIAHNAGAR (Div13) | 19,618 | 6,637 | 2026-01 | 2.96 |
| DEEPTHISRI NAGAR (DIV 15) | 11,690 | 5,126 | 2024-09 | 2.28 |
| MANIKONDA (DIV 18) | 37,359 | 17,691 | 2026-01 | 2.11 |
| VENGALRAONAGAR | 17,805 | 8,561 | 2026-01 | 2.08 |
| THATTIKHANA | 21,884 | 11,302 | 2026-01 | 1.94 |
| TARNAKA | 10,437 | 5,566 | 2026-01 | 1.88 |
Showing the 20 highest of 198 joined sections.
How to read this comparison
The two series do not cover the same window. Tanker bookings run to February 2024; connection counts are dated per row and can be later. The ratio is a rough intensity measure, not a rate for a fixed period.
Only the pre-2026 section scheme is comparable. HMWSSB re-cut its divisions and sections in February 2026, so the join uses the earlier geography - the one the tanker series was recorded in.
Tariff `category` codes are decoded from the legend HMWSSB publishes on the dataset page; an earlier build wrongly recorded that no legend existed. Unknown codes keep a null label rather than a guess.
Months where total demand is 0 yield collection_pct null rather than 0, to avoid a 0/0 ratio.
Source: HMWSSB billing and collection data 2022-2026 - Government Open Data License - India (GODL-India) Comparison built for Hyderabad only, where both feeds share operational units.