Minister for Water Resources Releases Atlas on Aquifer systems of India

[Venkata Pingali]

Today's press release.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=88037
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Minister of Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Pawan
Kumar Bansal released Atlas for six states viz Kerala, Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya in New Delhi
today. Central Ground Water Board has generated enormous data on
various aspects of ground water since its inception; the same has been
compiled and integrated to bring out the publication in the form of
atlas entitled “Aquifer systems of India.”
....
The aquifers of India have been classified in to 14 principal and 42
major aquifer systems. The compilation has been done on 1:250,000
scale by integrating the geological and hydro geological data of CGWB
& GSI respectively and various other ground water related the mtic
data/information from other agencies. The Atlas has been prepared
keeping in view the utilities and user friendliness in understanding
by the non-professional as well as professional Hydro geologist.
Simple presentation of tables is used to explain aquifer wise ground
water scenario in the country. Central Ground Water Board Ministry of
Water Resources is contemplating National Aquifer Mapping Programme at
1:50,000 or larger scales during XII and XIII Plan periods. This
ambitions venture will involve compilation and synthesis of all
relevant data collected by CGWB and various other agencies, to
identify existing data gaps, creating of additional data through
suitable investigations and finally, to bring out comprehensive
aquifer maps along with their ground water potential as well as
realistic and scientific management plans to ensure long-term
sustainability.

[rajesh]

Interesting that it was not done as an interactive online tool.
Also their own website does not mention the news nor is it available for download at http://cgwb.gov.in/download.html

[Ashis]

CGWB link to download the atlas: http://cgwb.gov.in/AQM/index.html

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[Vikram Kamath]

Is there any news about how one can go about acquiring this data?

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[Venkata Pingali]

I suspect we will have put in RTI requests. There is some data in
the PDFs at the link below but we need it in other formats to be
usable.

[rajesh]

thanks for spotting this.

i wasn't able to download the Karnataka one using FF15.01 on OSX, and then switched to chrome and saw the icons (space for icons, not the graphics). in the menu, Karnataka is the only one not clickable!

interesting website design.