Water quality by city
Water quality in Satara
Maharashtra · indicative TDS 250–650 ppm · moderate · Piped municipal supply drawn from rivers, lakes or dams, which is generally low to moderate in dissolved solids.
Important
The figures
| Parameter | Indicative value | What it means locally |
|---|---|---|
| TDS range | 250–650 ppm | Spans a band where RO is warranted at the top and unnecessary at the bottom. Measure your own. |
| Dominant source | Piped municipal supply drawn from rivers, lakes or dams, which is generally low to moderate in dissolved solids. | Piped municipal supply drawn from rivers, lakes or dams, which is generally low to moderate in dissolved solids. |
| Hardness class | moderate | Some scale over time, no significant practical complaints for most households. |
| Design TDS for sizing | 490 ppm | The figure our sizing tools use for this city when you have not measured your own. |
BIS IS 10500:2012 sets an acceptable TDS limit of 500 mg/L, extendable to 2,000 mg/L only where no alternate source exists. WHO sets no health-based guideline for TDS at all — it is a palatability parameter, not a safety one.
The tests worth paying for in Satara
Chosen from Satara’s dominant supply source and the regional geology of Maharashtra. Regional occurrence is a reason to test, never a prediction of your result — arsenic, fluoride and uranium all vary well by well.
- TDS, pH, total hardness, chloride₹300–₹800
The baseline panel. It establishes the character of your supply and whether RO or softening is the right direction at all.
What this parameter means → - Total coliform and E. coli₹300–₹900
The microbiological check. Contaminated water looks, tastes and smells completely normal, and no meter detects it.
What this parameter means →
What a city figure cannot tell you
This is worth being explicit about, because city-level water data is routinely used as though it described a specific tap.
- Within-city variation exceeds the range shown. Two borewells a hundred metres apart, drilled to different depths, can differ by an order of magnitude in iron, hardness and TDS.
- Your building sits between the mains and your tap. An underground sump, a pump, an overhead tank and the risers all change the water, and the tank in particular is a common contamination point.
- Seasons matter. Many Indian supplies blend municipal and borewell water differently across the year, and monsoon changes turbidity and microbiological risk within days.
- TDS says nothing about safety. Arsenic, lead, nitrate, fluoride and every pathogen are invisible to the meter that produced this range.
Frequently asked questions
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Sources
Every limit and standard quoted on this page comes from one of the documents below. Where a figure is not in one of these, we have not published it.
IS 10500:2012 Drinking Water — Specification (Second Revision)
Bureau of Indian Standards · published 2012-05-01 · checked 2026-08-01
The limits every figure on these pages is compared against.
Ground Water Quality in Shallow Aquifers — annual and state reports
Central Ground Water Board, Ministry of Jal Shakti · checked 2026-08-01
District-level groundwater quality reporting. Coverage and sampling year vary by state — check the report date for your own district rather than assuming a national figure applies.
City-level indicative supply characteristics
BestPurifier editorial compilation · checked 2026-08-01
TDS bands, dominant source and hardness class per city, compiled from publicly reported patterns and local supply arrangements. These are PLANNING RANGES, not measurements, and within-city variation exceeds the range shown. Reviewed annually.
Indicative planning ranges, last reviewed 2026-08-08. Refreshed annually. If you hold a laboratory result for Satara that materially disagrees with the range shown, send it to us — enough real results and this page can be republished from measurements with a stated sample size instead of estimated bands.