Jaipur Water Facts

Bisalpur on the latest report

The Rajasthan Water Resources Department's dam report of 8 October 2026 puts Bisalpur at 313.9 m and 781.41 million cubic metres, 71.31% of what it was built to hold; on the same date a year earlier it held 1,095.84. The dam is shared by Jaipur, Ajmer, Tonk and irrigation, so this is the whole dam, not the city's share.

Three quarters of the city's water comes from one dam

The Public Health Engineering Department, not the municipal corporation, supplies Jaipur's water. Its table for 31 December 2025 puts the city's production at 766.73 MLD: 590 MLD from Bisalpur dam and 176 MLD from its tube wells. A year earlier Bisalpur gave 492.08 MLD; the tube-well figure is the same in both years' tables, so the rise is the dam's.

The city's old reservoir stands empty

Ramgarh dam on the Banganga was a source of the city's drinking water from 1978 (Supreme Court, 2017). The Water Resources Department reported it empty on every date read from June 2023, including October 2025, when the state's dams were 90% full. The Rajasthan High Court has heard a case on its catchment since 2011.

About a third of the state's urban water tankers ran in Jaipur

PHED's summer table for urban areas lists the most water carried by road on 24 June 2025: 230 tankers a day and 1,283 trips in Jaipur city, out of 714 tankers and 4,435 trips across every listed town in Rajasthan.

Last monsoon: three quarters more rain than normal

IMD's Jaipur centre classes Jaipur district's 2025 monsoon as large excess: 918.5 mm against 524.3. The State as a whole had 164% of its long-period average.

Round-the-clock water on trial in three neighbourhoods

Under a 19 May 2023 memorandum with Denmark, PHED picked five areas of Jaipur for district-metered 24x7 supply to cut non-revenue water. Bajaj Nagar, Bani Park and Chitrakoot have had trial 24x7 supply since November 2024, with a target of 20% non-revenue water there; surveys were under way in the other two.

Seventy thousand more connections in a year

PHED counts 590,385 water connections in the city at the end of 2025, up from 519,165 a year earlier.

Before Bisalpur, almost all of the city's water came from the ground

JICA's ex-post evaluation of the Bisalpur Jaipur project, on PHED's figures, gives the city's dependence on groundwater as 97% at appraisal in 2003 and 18.8% in 2015. PHED's own table for 31 December 2025 puts tube wells at 176 of 766.73 MLD; the two are different documents, so they are not a trend.

Water lost between source and tap: the last published figure is from 2015

JICA's evaluation reports PHED's non-revenue water as 37% in 2015 and warns the figure is likely unreliable, because a 2014-15 study found 45 to 81% of consumer meters out of order in four zones. PHED's 2025-26 report sets a 20% target for its 24x7 trial areas but prints no current city figure.

A normal year's rain, nearly all of it in four months

IMD's 1991-2020 tables give the Jaipur observatory (index 42348) a normal of 600.3 mm on 34.3 rainy days. June to September bring 61.9, 190.5, 203.4 and 79.6 mm, 535.4 mm together.