Data Requirements

• Basin Characteristics• Hydro-meteorological Data• Projects Data• Data on Pollution• Demographic Data

Basin Characteristics

• Basin delineation• Drainage system – SRTM• Landuse/Landcover• Soil properties of the catchments – Global and

National data sources • River cross-section data

Digital Elevation Model

Hydro-meteorological Data• Meteorological data - IMD• Flow data at gauging sites - CWC and State

Water Resources Departments• Sediment data; volume and characterization –

CWC/State Govt. agencies• Ground water fluctuation data – CGWB/State

GW Boards• Flow cross sections and rating curves at

various stream gauging sites - CWC and State Water Resources Departments

Percentage share of major water balance in Ganga Basin components w.r.t. precipitation

Actual ET43%

Surface Runoff28%

Lateral Flow3%

Shallow Groundwater recharge

24%

Deep Aq Recharge1%

Scenario 1: Baseline - Virgin Condition

Projects Data• Data on water utilizations for– Agricultural– Domestic– Industrial and other uses

• Data on water resources projects including reservoirs and diversion facilities– Existing– Under implementation– Proposed

Storage Projects in Ganga Basin

Data on Pollution

• Point sources– Domestic sewage– Industrial

• Non-point sources– Data on use of fertilizers– Pesticides

• Data on water quality observations– Surface – Ground water – CPCB, CWC, CGWB, State Pollution Control Boards, MOEF

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Demographic & Socio-economic Data

• Livelihoods• Land holdings• Population• Ecological hotspots• Water pricing

Geospatial Database Management

• For integration of information across domains– Processing raw data– Managing generated information– Storage– Retrieval

• Analysis to generate– Scenarios for different developmental pathways– Sharable information with all the stakeholders