Water resources

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The crescent shape and the pond Surajkand adjoining the Sun Temple had stone steps and dams. This pond used to store rainwater in the Aravalli hills. (Arvind Yadav / CSE) The crescent form and the pond Surajkand adjacent to the Sun Temple had stone steps and dams. This pond accumulates rainwater inside the Aravali hills)

Delhi has been a metropolis long before water pumps, electricity and water purifying chemical substances have been additionally made. Since the eleventh century, it remained a completely rich and populous town with the capital of one or the ruling dynasty right here. Unlike different massive cities, its condition has also modified frequently. Today the city is situated on the banks of Yamuna, but it became now not so before.

The place wherein Anangpal of Tomar dynasty settled Delhi in 1020 is close to cutting-edge Surajkund and it now comes inside the border of Haryana. The city got its call Surajkund because of the Sun Temple and the semi-crescent pond with stone steps attached to it. This pond became constructed to keep the rain water falling at the Aravalli mountain. Ferozeshah Tughlaq repaired its stairs and corridors and got the stones fixed. There is anangpur dam close to Surajkund, wherein local stones are used. The dam became constructed with the aid of filling stones in the tight pass. After this, many Delhi have settled and all of them settled in the valley of Aravalli hill variety. There changed into an intricate device of water harvesting in some of these cities, in order that the citizens could no longer must cross everywhere to satisfy their each day desires.

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Fort Raipithaura: In South Delhi, the stays of the Sultanate era water arrangements are full. Fort Raipithaura (Mehrauli AD 1052) became the first capital of the Sultanate length and it's far 18 km from Yamuna. Was at a distance. Due to the geography of this mountainous vicinity and its elevation, there has been no scope to bring water from Yamuna thru the canal. The handiest option was to save the wet water. That is why Sultan Altutmish built a big lake named Hauz-e-Sultani or Hauz-e-Altutmish. Later Alauddin Khilji and Firoz Shah Tughlaq repaired this pond. During the reign of Ferozeshah Tughlaq, the mischievous humans had closed the waterways leading to the pond. The Sultan ordered the tubes to be wiped clean and the hose packed with water. The water of this pond 2 hundred meters lengthy and 125 meters wide remains utilized by the people who go to the Dargah of Kaki Saheb. The pond is now full of sizable silt and its catchment vicinity has been occupied by means of the developers and the Delhi Development Authority.

Along with the ponds, the sultans and their wealthy human beings built and maintained bawalis (step wells). These Bawalis have been now not private jagirs and people of all religions and castes ought to take water. The sheriff of sulfur turned into shaped for the duration of the time of Sultan Altumish and it got its name because of the quantity of sulfur in the water. The water of this beautiful stepwell product of stones remains used for bathing and washing. There are ruins of many Baawalis like Raj's Baoli, Dargah Kaki Saheb's Baoli and the cave cave behind the Mahavir web page. Bawalis have been also built in different parts of the town at some point of this era. Nizamuddin Baoli, Feroz Shah Kotla's Baoli and Vasant Vihar's Moradabad's Baoli are distinguished. All these are in use until date. But Ugrasen's Baoli, Palam Baoli and Sultanpur Baoli and so on. Have dried up and most effective its systems are standing.