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A century of groundwater accumulation in Pakistan and northwest India - dataset (NERC Grant NE/R000069/1)

The groundwater systems of northwest India and central Pakistan are amongst the most heavily exploited in the world. Groundwater has been monitored in the region for more than a century resulting in a unique long-term record of groundwater level change. The BGS has compiled groundwater level data from northwest India (Haryana and Punjab) and Pakistan (Punjab) between 1884 and 2020. The dataset, presented here, was compiled from various sources between 2018 and 2020. The excel file consists of two tabs both containing groundwater level data (in metres below ground level) and location information. In the first tab (Full_dataset), which contains the full dataset, there are 68783 rows of observed groundwater level data from 4028 individual sites. In the second tab (LTS) there are 7547 rows of groundwater level observations from 130 individual sites, which have water level data available for a period of more than 40 years and from which at least two thirds of the annual observations are available.

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Date (Creation)
2021-07-13
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607785
Originator
  National Institute of Hydrology - Gopal Krishan
Roorkee , India
Originator
  International Waterlogging and Salinity Research Institute, Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority - Muhammed Basharat
Lahore , Pakistan
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Originator
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Originator
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable notApplicable
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Agriculture
  • Citable Data
  • Groundwater
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Water resources
dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Citable Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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licenceOGL
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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textTable Text, table
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
PAK

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
PAKISTAN [id=463000]

Date (Creation)
1979

Geographic identifier
PK

Date (Revision)
2009

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Begin date
1884-10-01
End date
2020-10-01
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
Distribution format
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
OnLine resource
Data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
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Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )

MacAllister, DJ., Krishan, G., Basharat, M., MacDonald, A.M. (2021). A century of groundwater accumulation in Pakistan and northwest India - dataset. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/150c95f7-18bf-4f66-880b-8364b7257b26

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Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
No
Statement
More details on the dataset and methodology used to compile it can be found in the associated paper (**************).
File identifier
c817913b-3753-5aef-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-12-15
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607785
 
 

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