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Over-exploited aquifers, hard and iron-bearing bores, and lake-fed recharge are different problems

Groundwater stress (CGWB and state data). The 2023 assessment by Karnataka’s Ground Water Directorate and CGWB puts Hoskote’s stage of groundwater extraction at 171.02%, with 3.10 TMC extracted against 1.81 TMC of annual extractable resource, and classifies the taluk as over-exploited (Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Karnataka 2023, OpenCity copy). An earlier figure of 225%, citing CGWB data from 2015, appears in the IJCRD 2016 study. That paper shows the Channapura observation well falling from 6.25 m below ground in May 1993 to 91.52 m in May 2014, the Hoskote town well at 56.63 m (May 2014), and town supply of 1-2 hours a day, topped up by private tankers.

District picture (CGWB booklet). The Central Ground Water Board’s Ground Water Information Booklet for Bangalore Rural district (March 2013, mirrored copy) records average annual rainfall of 824 mm (1901-70), lists “presence of fluoride in pockets” as the quality issue, counts four over-exploited blocks, and puts 2011 piezometer water levels at mostly 5-30 m below ground pre-monsoon. It does not publish a district TDS range.

Taluk-wide village sources (older, large dataset). A 2016 paper analysed panchayat engineering data for 650 drinking-water sources across 26 gram panchayats. TDS ranged from 70 to 4,130 mg/L, total hardness from 40 to 2,550 mg/L, fluoride from 0 to 3.6 mg/L, iron from 0 to 32 mg/L and conductivity from 87 to 5,670 µS/cm. Hardness was above 600 mg/L in 136 sources (20.92%), iron above 1 mg/L in 43, fluoride above 1.5 mg/L in 25 (3.85%), and 70% of sources were classed potable. The authors give 838 mm as average rainfall (Maruthesha Reddy, Prabhakar and Akshatha, IRJET 2016, institutional copy). Its reference list points to a 2000-01 water quality report, so treat these as an older snapshot. Its nitrate figures do not agree internally, so we do not use them.

Nitrate hot spots. A companion study of 82 village drinking-water samples found nitrate from 0 to 1,250 mg/L (mean 59.5 mg/L), with the highest readings at Doddaganahalli (1,250 mg/L) and Yedagondanahalli (1,120 mg/L), and flagged parts of Nandagudi and Anugondanahalli hoblis as anomalous zones (Maruthesha Reddy et al., IRJET 2015, institutional copy). The published table repeats several rows, so read it as a warning sign, not a precise map.

Deep bores, Hoskote-Malur belt (2014). A Bangalore University study of 34 deep bore wells in parts of Hoskote and Malur taluks, sampled in December 2014, found TDS of 167.9 to 1,848.3 mg/L (mean 613.17 mg/L), total hardness of 70 to 770 mg/L with 13 samples above 300 mg/L, fluoride of 0.2 to 1.0 mg/L, nitrate of 1.2 to 25 mg/L, chloride of 40 to 730 mg/L and sulphate above 200 mg/L in 3 samples (Ravikumar, Somashekar and Prakash, EREM 2015). The area drains to the Pinakini and Ponnaiyar.

Lakes, treated wastewater and the river. Since end-2011, about 5-6 million cubic metres a year of water from Bengaluru’s Yelemallappa Shetty tank has been lifted to the Amani Doddakere. The IWMI case reports groundwater near the tank recovering from more than 1,000 feet to about 800 feet and notes that direct use of tank water was banned (CGIAR); activists have contested the quality of that inflow (The News Minute, 2018). The KC Valley scheme, which sends secondary-treated Bellandur water to 137 tanks in Kolar and Chikkaballapur, is separate (Frontline, 2023); we found no source saying it fills Hoskote tanks. Bellandur drains via Varthur into the Dakshina Pinakini (IISc, Varthur lake study), and the river shows sewage foaming downstream at Kelavarapalli (New Indian Express, 2026). A 2017-18 survey of Hosakote lake reports sewage and small-industry pollution, with average TDS of 345.8 ppm and lead of 0.1012 ppm (Veena et al., abstract only); treat that as weaker, because we could read only the abstract.

KIADB Pillagumpe and Kambalipura. We did not find a groundwater chemistry study for the industrial areas themselves that we could open in full, so there are no measured ranges here. Treat iron, hardness, nitrate and fluoride as first-panel lab items, and add metals where a bore sits near drains or treated-water tanks.

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Takeaway: we do not invent a single Hoskote TDS. A Pillagumpe engineering unit, a Narsapura-side warehouse, a Sulibele dairy and a bore beside a refilled tank can sit in completely different chemistry bands. Every Bangalore Aqua quote for Hoskote starts with a feed-water test from your actual source. The numbers above come from CGWB, the state assessment and published studies. Your site test decides the design.