Nagpur Water Facts

Fewer tankers serving areas the network does not reach

NMC's own count: 346 (dated 2016 in its environment reports and 2018 in its budgets), 193 in 2023, 78 in 2024, 59 in early 2025, 37 in early 2026. The documents do not say whether the count is of vehicles or daily trips.

Water lost between source and consumer

The report prints 41.91%; 410 of 706 gives 41.93%. The 2022-23 report stated 47%, and its own table's figures give 45% on our arithmetic.

NMC's share of the Pench

The 2020 resolution sets NMC's share at 190 Mcum a year. A WRD engineer described that 190 to the regulator in 2017 as the project plan's 112 plus the 78 sanctioned in 1998; NMC described it as 15% of the complex's 1,262 Mcum. The state water regulator held in 2018 that the 78 is 'legal and intact as on today'. The latest published figures for what the city drew from the Pench are in NMC's draft 2017-18 report (its table is headed 'present' and gives no year), and they disagree: 143 million cubic metres billed, while the four Pench plants treated about 166.

Totladoh on the day of this snapshot

The state Water Resources Department's daily bulletin. On the same date a year earlier Totladoh held 98.8% and Navegaon Khairi 80.7%. Totladoh is shared with Madhya Pradesh and NMC holds a yearly reservation in it, so the figure is the whole dam's storage, not the city's. The dashboard's reservoir cards carry the daily series.

Areas that get water for less than two hours a day

NMC's report counts 'certain areas' in these command areas as dark zones, 'since the water supply was found to be less than 2 h per day'. The reports give no citywide hours of supply.

Tap-water samples found fit

Tested at the Regional Public Health Laboratory, Nagpur, as NMC reports it.

Four of the city's five treatment plants run on Pench water

NMC's Environment Status Report lists five plants: Pench I to IV (136, 175, 120, 115 MLD) and Kanhan (240 MLD). The Pench water is released from Totladoh, the Pench hydro-electric reservoir shared with Madhya Pradesh, into the Navegaon Khairi pick-up dam, and goes to the Mahadula pumping station, at km 48.5 of the old canal route (ESR 2017-18 draft); NMC told the state regulator that a closed pipeline replaced the canal in April 2015. The Kanhan plant draws from the river.

The network the water travels through

NMC's 2026-27 budget (published May 2026). The city is divided into 10 water distribution zones.

A normal year's rain

IMD's own Nagpur observatory normal is 1,151.2 mm (1991-2020). On this grid cell, June to September bring 87% of a normal year's rain; the wettest year in the record is 1994, at 1,744.2 mm.