Because in India there is an increasing drop of water table due to unregulated pumping, most of the wells in the country have long been dried up and are now nothing more then neglected places. Chicago journalist Victoria Lautman traveled the country and documented the impressive structures called stepwellsÂ
You probably never even heard of this entire category of architecture that is slowly crumbling and disappearing from this world. These impressive structures are massive subterranean temples and they were designed to be a primary way to access water in regions where the climate varies between blisteringly dry and a few months of monsoons in the spring
Believe it or not but this system for water preservation happened for a millennium
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