Published on : 14 Nov 2025, 12:07 pm

Gurugram extracts groundwater nearly twice the available resource

The annual ground water extraction in the entire Gurugram district of Haryana is 43,262.85 hectare meters (ham) according to the 2024 assessment, the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) stated in its reply to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on November 6, 2025 . The annual extractable ground water resource is 20,333.39 ham.

This indicates that the district extracts nearly twice the available resource.

Gurugram Urban, according to the 2024 assessment, has a “stage of extraction of 326.52 per cent, indicating that extraction is over three times the recharge”.

The CGWB report said action on illegal extraction rests with the state government/Haryana Water Resources Authority and th

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