{"id":746148,"date":"2026-08-22T12:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746148\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:12:25","slug":"india-is-turning-to-ancient-water-systems-as-modern-ones-run-dry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746148\/","title":{"rendered":"India is turning to ancient water systems as modern ones run dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">The stepwell, a large storage tank where water is accessed through flights of steps, is part of a historic water-harvesting system <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/efiblog.org\/2022\/03\/24\/unveiling-the-moosi-rani-sagar\/\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">built in the early 1800s<\/a>.\u00a0Until 2021, water levels in the stepwell, which covers around 1.3 acres (0.5 hectares), were inconsistent and heavily contaminated. Today, though, it holds water at depths of up to 30ft (9m). Vijay Sarswat, a 60-year-old Alwar resident, says it rarely drops below 20ft (6m) even in the driest months of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The stepwell, a large storage tank where water is accessed through flights of steps, is part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-746148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}