dinesh lalvani » environment http://www.deetox.com my little corner of the interweb! Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:07:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 History has taught us nothing http://www.deetox.com/2009/03/history-has-taught-us-nothing/ http://www.deetox.com/2009/03/history-has-taught-us-nothing/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:16:01 +0000 Dinesh http://www.dineshlalvani.com/2009/03/16/history-has-taught-us-nothing/ Continue Reading]]> Trip to amber fort has really impressd me. It’s amazing how man can be so ingenuous when required. Jaipur being a semi arid state with not much rainfall created a problem for the rulers back in the day. So when they constructed the amber fort a lot of thought went into environmentally sound building principles.

Rainwater harvesting was carried extensively in the architecture. Each and every drop was collected and place in a tank that held about 65,000 gallons of water. The tank base comprised of layers of limestones and other minerals to filter and purify the water for consumption.

They did this hundreds if years ago and we still can’t do itnow.

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