Case study of Traditional Step Well at Gwalior, India

Abstract

Today when everyone has issue with scarcity of drinking water and we are digging more and more to get water from the ground and now that is because the demand and supply gets increases so we need to know the value of the traditional water system and we should realized it today that our ancestor was visionary and though the water was always been carrying a sacred value for them, at every level people try to maintain, save and harvest the water and understood the necessity and importance of it for the human life and try to harvest water by making ponds, tanks, dams, Baoli, lake, step wells. The evidences are also reflected in the ancient town planning of Harappa, Mohenjodaro and can also predominantly seen at Buddhist sites such as: Sanchi, Ajanta, Ellora. This paper is an approach to understand and identifying the traditional water system at city level and the case study is on Gwalior city and identifying how to revive the traditional water system.