Central Ground Water Board
Indian groundwater resource assessment
Central Ground Water Board is the government department or statistical office for India. It publishes the national groundwater resource assessment classifying every assessment unit as safe, semi-critical, critical or over-exploited, together with groundwater level and quality monitoring.
Rights
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesData from Central Ground Water Board, used under Government Open Data License – India.
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- Central Ground Water Board
- Website
- https://cgwb.gov.in/
- Geographic coverage
- India
- Temporal coverage
- 1980 onwards
- Update frequency
- annual
- Formats
- csv, html, pdf
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- groundwater, withdrawal, quality
Notes
India abstracts more groundwater than any other country. The CGWB assessment unit classification is the key official record of where that abstraction exceeds recharge.