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...Back in the day - that day being some 425 years ago - Udaipur's system of lake development was considered a role model of water management. As early as 1582, the Maharanas of the erstwhile state of Mewar started dredging out Lake Pichola to make it suitable as an irrigation and drinking source for the general population. In 1890, Maharana Fateh Singh inaugurated a project that geography professor Narpat Singh Rathore of Udaipur's Mohanlal Sukhadia University calls the "the world's first man-made microsystem of river diversion, linkage and watershed management," the result of which constitutes the current system...
...Razdan is old enough to remember what Lake Pichola used to look like. "With so many ghats [steps] and temples lining the lake, and buildings limited to single-story development, it was more beautiful even than along the Ganges in Benares," Razdan, a surgeon who lives in Udaipur, Rajasthan, says. "To see it now, I am weeping. That is the pain...
...Lake Pichola, a 4.3-sq.-mi. lake in Udaipur, could go the way of the cheetah and other endangered wonders in India unless someone finds a way to put the brakes on its long list of misfortunes. Inadequate sewage systems, overgrowth of hyacinths, industrial waste pollution, deforestation and heavy lakeshore development have left the lake with plastic bottles and other debris lining its once pristine edges. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...These ideas and others were addressed last month at a one-day conference exploring integrated lake-basin management for the Udaipur lakes, hosted by Mewar at his Fateh Prakash Hotel beside Lake Pichola. Masahisa Nakamura, director of the Center for Sustainability and Environment at Japan's Shiga University and chairman of the International Lake Environment Committee Foundation's scientific committee, identified several human factors that are to blame for the lakes' sorry state: deforestation, construction of new hotels and private homes too close to the lakes, sewage and waste dumping, and poor governance, bribes and corruption. Nakamura was particularly critical...
SANCTUARY OF THE PAST Sunset over Udaipur's lakeside palaces might be the most picturesque sight in Rajasthan. Where the city meets the placid waters of Lake Pichola, these immense sandstone buildings offer a towering display of unmatched magnificence. Drenched in a flood of pink light, it's one of those perfect scenes that postcards cannot capture. To witness this magical view at its best, head to one of two island palaces that rise grandly out of the lake. One is the Jagniwas, better known as the Lake Palace island, and one of the sites of James Bond's exploits...
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