CPCB Dashboard Guide
CPCB Dashboard Guide
Section titled “CPCB Dashboard Guide”What this guide will cover
Section titled “What this guide will cover”A practical action guide for using the CPCB’s online water quality monitoring dashboard to find real-time and historical data for Indian rivers.
Planned content:
- Finding your station — how to locate monitoring stations on your river or in your district using the map or search interface.
- Reading the dashboard — what each indicator panel shows; how to interpret colour-coded status (DO, BOD, pH, etc.) at a glance.
- Viewing historical trends — how to pull up time-series data for a station and read basic trend direction.
- Downloading data — steps to export station data for use in your own reports or submissions.
- Understanding data gaps — why some stations show no data, what “offline” means, and how to work around missing readings.
- Using CPCB data in complaints — how to reference official CPCB readings when filing a pollution complaint (links to Advocacy & Policy → How to File a Complaint).
- Known issues — interface quirks and workarounds current as of last verification date.