c817913b-3753-5aef-e054-002128a47908 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-05-02 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607785 WGS 84 (EPSG::4326) A century of groundwater accumulation in Pakistan and northwest India - dataset (NERC Grant NE/R000069/1) 2021-07-13 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607785 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. Gopal Krishan National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee India not available originator Muhammed Basharat International Waterlogging and Salinity Research Institute, Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority Lahore Pakistan not available originator Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk originator Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey not available originator Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available pointOfContact notApplicable https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/c817913b-3753-5aef-e054-002128a47908.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Agriculture Groundwater Water resources BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision NGDC Deposited Data Citable Data dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions licenceOGL Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" otherRestrictions The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. 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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" textTable English geoscientificInformation ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision PAK British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation PAKISTAN [id=463000] ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision PK 69.6500 77.5500 27.8000 33.1300 1884-10-01 2020-10-01 Enquiries British Geological Survey 0115 936 3142 0115 936 3276 The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South EDINBURGH LOTHIAN EH14 4AP United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item167240 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download https://doi.org/10.5285/150c95f7-18bf-4f66-880b-8364b7257b26 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 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 information dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false More details on the dataset and methodology used to compile it can be found in the associated paper (**************).