About watercut.live

In many Indian cities, piped water comes for an hour or two a day, sometimes on alternate days, and tankers fill the gap. The information people need is public but scattered across PDFs, press notes and helpline numbers. watercut.live puts it in one place, by pincode.

Where the data comes from

• Supply hours and government tankers: water boards' own documents, such as the Delhi Jal Board Summer Action Plan 2026. Every table links to its source.
• Pincodes and areas: India Post's All India Pincode Directory, published on data.gov.in under the Government Open Data License – India. Pincodes for some colonies come from map data ©OpenStreetMap contributors under the Open Database License.
• Delhi map: constituency boundaries fromDataMeet's community maps under CC BY 2.5 India, drawn in simplified form.
• Planned water cuts: Delhi Jal Board and Chennai Metro Water press notes and Bengaluru water board notices, read once a day. AI copies the dates and areas from each note, and every card links to the note itself.
• Reservoir levels: the Central Water Commission's weekly bulletin.
• News: headlines via Google News, linking to their publishers.
• Helplines and booking links: the water boards' websites and press notes.

Times are copied as printed. When a printed time doesn't make sense (for example "5 AM to 7 PM" for a two-hour supply), the page says so instead of guessing.

What it isn't

watercut.live is independent. It is not run by, or affiliated with, any water board, municipal corporation or government body, and it can't book or send tankers.