Kolkata - WB

What we found in Kolkata

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Sewage
910
MLD treated by the East Kolkata Wetlands
A wetland is the city's largest sewage treatment plant
Drainage
6
mm/hour design standard
Victorian drains rated for 6 mm of rain an hour
Rivers
0
mg/l dissolved oxygen
The Adi Ganga runs at zero dissolved oxygen
Supply
0
reservoirs
Kolkata stores none of its water
Gap
4.5m vs 6m
residents vs daily floating population
The corporation contests its own population

Water Sources

Hooghly at Palta (Indira Gandhi WTP)

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No public daily abstraction or production figure for Palta, the intake that supplies most of Kolkata. The 1,180 MLD figure is a design capacity from a KMC page labelled draft and footered 2013.

Garden Reach Water Works

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No public daily production series. 839.4 MLD is a design capacity; a further 225 MLD is described as under construction with no dated completion.

Jai Hind Jal Prokolpo (Dhapa)

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No public daily production series; 136.3 MLD is a design capacity.

KMC deep tube wells

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No public tube-well register or daily draw. The ~110 MLD figure is a single line on KMC's water-distribution page.

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Groundwater

CGWB block exploitation, CGWB Year Book station overlay.

Water bodies

OSM polygons.

About this dashboard

Methodology, data sources, water sources tracked, and the data gaps we're honest about.

Methodology: Reservoir levels for Kolkata from KMC. Daily consumption assumptions (~- MLD demand) are starting points; the sliders above let you substitute your own. See theAbout pagefor the full data-source index and methodology.