H@R 113/365 Boter Kotha Vav Mehsana walled city, Mehsana

H@R 113/365

Boter Kotha Vav Mehsana walled city, Mehsana

Boter Kotha Vav is a brick construction, 4-storeyed liner type of Nanda stepwell. It is severely threatened. Uncountable historic water structures have been lost to neglect and rapid urbanisation. A wide variety of traditional water harvesting, storage and water supply structures and systems have been functional across the country since centuries and known by various colloquial terms in different areas. Yet, there is a trending disregard for them and the most common state of water structures is there use as garbage dumps. With the continuing pace of insensitive development, this abundance of Vavs of Gujarat, that we so intrinsically associate with the region and take for granted, will not be part of our setting in the recent future.