Gurugram bulk water sales
Gurugram is the rare city where the authority sells bulk water by the tanker load and publishes the transaction record. GMDA logged every load it dispensed for three years - the point it came from, the grade of water, the buyer, and the price - so this page shows what a dark-zone city actually sold, rather than a surveyed household price.
What Gurugram sold, and how that changed
Gurugram sits on a Central Ground Water Authority dark zone, declared in 2008. Across these three years the share of bulk tanker water that was not drinking water rose from 29.7% to 51.2% - potable volume fell 64% while treated and recycled volume held roughly flat. The tariffs did not move over the same period, so this is a change in what was sold rather than a change in what it cost.
What each grade costs
GMDA's own tariff, unchanged to the decimal across all three years.
| Water grade | Rs / kL | Volume | Loads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potable/Drinking Waterdrinking | 70.65 | 1,059 ML | 16,643 |
| CETP-Treated Water | 8 | 368 ML | 5,037 |
| Recycle Water | 30 | 281 ML | 7,425 |
| Raw/Canal Water | 70.48 | 15 ML | 179 |
Who buys it
The three largest buyers alone took 18.8% of everything sold. This is a bulk market of developers, contractors and industry, not a household one - GMDA sells tanker water to construction sites and factories, and the publisher names them.
| Buyer | Volume | Share | Potable |
|---|---|---|---|
| DLF PRIMUS SECTOR-82A, GURUGRAM, HARYANA | 124 ML | 7.2% | 100% |
| Candor Gurgaon Two Developers & projects private limited | 123 ML | 7.14% | 100% |
| TRL RICELAND PRIVATE LIMITED | 77 ML | 4.49% | 2.2% |
| Sunbeam Lightweighting Solutions Pvt. Ltd | 74 ML | 4.27% | 100% |
| Chintel India Ltd. 86 | 59 ML | 3.41% | 0% |
| Candor Tech Space | 50 ML | 2.9% | 100% |
| JTEKT INDIA LIMITED | 47 ML | 2.72% | 100% |
| Candor Techspace | 43 ML | 2.5% | 100% |
| NARAIN DASS R ISRANI & .CO PVT.LTD | 40 ML | 2.31% | 18.5% |
| DLF HOME DEVLOPERS | 39 ML | 2.24% | 100% |
| M/S Tata Projects Ltd.C/o Krisumi | 37 ML | 2.14% | 22.4% |
| Raheja devlopers | 37 ML | 2.13% | 49.8% |
| Lemon tree land and developers | 35 ML | 2.05% | 100% |
| DLF home developers | 34 ML | 1.95% | 100% |
| DLF ULTIMA | 29 ML | 1.68% | 0% |
Where it is dispensed
Two of these are water works and boosting stations; the rest are sewage and effluent treatment plants selling their output. Points that stopped reporting are marked, rather than smoothed away.
| Dispensing point | Volume | Years active |
|---|---|---|
| Boosting Station Sector 16 | 741 ML | 2019, 2020, 2021 |
| Common Effluent Treatment Plant | 368 ML | 2019, 2020, 2021 |
| Water Works Basai | 315 ML | 2019, 2020, 2021 |
| STP Dhanwapur | 145 ML | 2019, 2020, 2021 |
| STP Beharampur | 136 ML | 2019, 2020, 2021 |
| Water Works Chandu Bhuderastopped reporting | 15 ML | 2019 |
| Boosting Station Sector 51 | 3 ML | 2019, 2020, 2021 |
What this data does not tell you
The published series stops after 2021. Verified 2026-08-14: 2022 through 2026 do not 404 but redirect to an HTML error page served as HTTP 200, so they are absent rather than empty. Watched by the Headwaters entry gmda-tanker-mis.
Do not read the falling volume as falling tanker dependence. Bookings drop 12,337 to 7,208 across 2019-2021, but this is a construction-driven market and 2020-21 are COVID years. The composition trend below is the finding that survives, because it is a ratio measured inside the same disrupted period.
Buyer counts are after normalising corporate-form and site-suffix variants of the same name; the raw column carries more distinct strings than there are buyers.
Two upstream rows across the three years are corrupt and were refused rather than coerced: one carries an epoch-millisecond value in the tanker-size column with zero litres, the other has an unescaped comma in the delivery address that shifts the whole row. Counted per year as rows_rejected.
It also covers only what GMDA itself sold. Gurugram has a private tanker market alongside this one, and no public record of it exists - so this is the floor on tanker dependence, not the total.
Source: Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority - Water Tanker MIS Report · fetched 2026-08-14 · aggregated on build, not republished