Water

A Need of Indian Economy - A need for Indian Life

India is a green economy country, traditionally a farming based culture. A manson agriculture is the base of Indian life. Being a semi-continent size country, India has variety of land masses with diverse climate. At one end there is Assam where the highest rain showers are recorded and on the other end there is Rajastan where the showers are the luxury in dessert. The western part of India is manily famous for the water conservation.

To cope with this parched life, the people of western India more than a 1000 years ago built wells. But not the holes in the ground we know as wells, these were ornate, magnificent, maze-like structures made of stone, some 90 feet deep.

Listen more about "Steps to Water; The Ancient Stepwells of India." A meeting place, deep underground. this.