Central Water Commission (CWC)
India's premier technical organization for water resources providing reservoir storage monitoring, river water level and discharge data, and hydrological observations across all major river basins
cwc.gov.in
At a glance
- Region
- India (South Asia)
- Coverage
- National - all major river basins, 150+ reservoirs
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
What's inside
- Reservoir Storage
- River Water Levels
- River Discharge
- Sediment Data
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Storage tracking
Follow storage and releases through the season.
Because it has: Reservoir Storage
- 02
Change over time
See how lakes and wetlands have grown or shrunk.
- 03
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: River Discharge
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Storage from space
Estimate volume from satellite water area and altimetry.
- 02
Release decisions
Optimise releases against inflow forecasts.
- 03
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
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- Telangana State Irrigation and CAD Department Water DataSouth Asia | Free
- CGWB India Groundwater Quality PortalSouth Asia | Free
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