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An over-exploited aquifer, saline and nitrate-prone bores, and an industrial lake chain are different problems

Groundwater stress (state and CGWB assessments). The joint CGWB and state Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Karnataka 2025 report (mirrored copy) puts Anekal’s stage of groundwater extraction at 105.60% and classes the taluk as over-exploited. Annual extraction is 10,891.97 ham against 10,314.48 ham of extractable resource, with nothing left for future use. Industry takes 2,788.32 ham, second only to Bangalore-City within the district, and Bengaluru Urban has the state’s most industrial wells (29,502). The 2023 assessment (mirrored copy) gave 102.28%, with 3.05 TMC extracted against 2.98 TMC and 0.94 TMC of industrial draw. The older CGWB Ground Water Information Booklet for Bangalore Urban district (December 2008, OpenCity copy) put Anekal at 206% as of March 2004. Methods changed between these reports, but every figure is above 100%.

Quality flags (CGWB booklet). The booklet puts EC across most of Anekal taluk at 1,000-2,000 micromhos/cm, above 2,000 in a small central part, with chloride of 250-1,000 mg/L over the larger part of the taluk and nitrate above the 45 mg/L limit over a major part of it. District-wide, it gives hardness of 100-600 ppm and fluoride generally below 1 ppm. It notes that Anekal drains to the South Pennar (Dakshina Pinakini) of the Ponnaiyar basin, and that pre-monsoon water levels in the taluk fell by about 0.06-0.33 m a year over 1997-2006.

State quality tags. Neither the 2025 nor the 2023 state report tags Anekal for salinity, nitrate, fluoride or uranium; in Bengaluru Urban, only Bangalore (North) and Yelahanka are tagged, for nitrate. The 2023 report does name Bengaluru Urban among districts where some May 2022 samples exceeded 600 mg/L hardness and 45 mg/L nitrate. So nitrate is a site question, neither a blanket rule nor a non-issue.

Rainfall. The 2025 state report gives Bengaluru Urban a normal of 846 mm (934 mm in 2024); the CGWB booklet uses 831 mm. We plan storage around the lower figure.

CGWB monitoring wells in the taluk. CGWB’s groundwater quality dataset on the National Water Data Portal includes May samples from stations at seven Anekal locations:

• Anekal town (2001-2018): EC 1,394-2,620 µS/cm, chloride 276.51-530 mg/L, hardness 370-680 mg/L.
• Jigani (2018-2020): EC 1,070-2,550 µS/cm, hardness 210-490 mg/L, chloride 138-415 mg/L.
• Begihalli (2001-2020): EC 870-2,480 µS/cm, hardness 260-365 mg/L.
• Haragadde (2006-2016): EC 750-1,527 µS/cm, hardness 250-410 mg/L.
• Bhaktipura (2014-2018): EC 430-908 µS/cm, hardness 140-200 mg/L, the freshest station.
• Bommasandra and Sarjapura (single 2000 samples): EC 1,830 and 1,135 µS/cm; Bommasandra hardness 725 mg/L.

The copy we read has no usable TDS, fluoride, nitrate or uranium values for these wells.

Industrial-belt and lake-side bores (NGT joint committee, 2022). In January 2022 a joint committee formed by the National Green Tribunal sampled six borewells around the Chandapura lake catchment, at Hennagara and Yarandahalli in Jigani hobli, near the Bommasandra TMC sewage plant, beside the Chandapura TMC office and at two Heelalige sites (NGT OA 324 of 2021, joint committee report). TDS ranged from 668 to 1,720 mg/L, total hardness from 384 to 1,120 mg/L, chloride from 228 to 604 mg/L and nitrate from 14 to 66 mg/L, with four of the six bores above 45 mg/L. Fluoride stayed between 0.11 and 1.0 mg/L, heavy metals were below detection or within IS 10500, and one Heelalige bore had E. coli. The committee said these bores should be treated before drinking use.

What the lakes receive (same report). The committee traced a chain from Veerasandra lake through Hebbagodi, Kammasandra-Bommasandra and Heelalige lakes into Chandapura lake and graded all of them Class E (irrigation, industrial cooling and controlled waste disposal only). A drain beside Bommasandra Phase I carried COD of 10,896 mg/L, and the Veerasandra outlet drain carried zinc of 23.2 mg/L and iron of 18.85 mg/L, which the committee linked to plating units. KSPCB records cited in the report show 206 of 543 industries in the Jigani-Bommasandra Phase IV, Bommasandra Phase I and Veerasandra estates sending effluent to CETPs, some 25-84 km away by tanker.

Bommasandra industrial area (older studies). A May 2007 survey of 30 groundwater samples there found 73.33% non-potable, with TDS of 226-2,622 mg/L, hardness of 310-1,920 mg/L (mean 878.33), nitrate of 10-302 mg/L (mean 65.07) and chloride up to 1,440 mg/L; chromium made 20% of samples unfit (Shankar and Balasubramanya, Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 2009). A smaller 2015 study of 16 bores reported TDS of 238.8-622 mg/L and nitrate of 4.31-6.91 mg/L (Shivaprasad et al., IJERA 2015), but its text has internal inconsistencies, so we use it only as a light cross-check.

Weaker sources. A 2010 study of 28 Anekal borewells placed 64.3% in the high-salinity C3-S1 class (Ravikumar et al., abstract only), and a 2023 undergraduate paper reported lead above the BIS limit in all ten groundwater samples it tested (IRJEdT 2023). These are reasons to test, not design numbers.

Piped supply. Cauvery Stage V, inaugurated in October 2024, serves 110 villages in the city’s outer zones (The Hindu, 2025). The proposed Stage 6 names Anekal among towns facing water shortages, but in August 2025 its project report still awaited approval and officials said completion could take up to a decade (Bangalore Mirror). We found no source confirming Cauvery supply to the Anekal, Attibele, Chandapura or Jigani municipal councils, so most sites should plan around bores and tankers.

Planning table

Takeaway: we do not invent a single Anekal TDS. A Bommasandra electronics unit, an Attibele warehouse and a Chandapura apartment bore can sit in completely different chemistry bands. Every Bangalore Aqua quote for Anekal starts with a feed-water test from your actual source. The numbers above come from CGWB, state assessments, a tribunal-ordered survey and published studies. Your site test decides the design.