AURANGABAD JALSTROT BACHAV ABHIYAN (Aurangabad Water

Resources Conservation Mission)

Aurangabad is a big historical city. It is famous through out the world because of Ajanta, Ellora
caves and historical monuments like Bibi-ka-Mkhbra (replica of Taj Mahal), Panchakki-nahar
(ancient water carriage system). Aurangabad city was developed by Malik Amber. It was designed
nicely by considering the safety and beauty. From safety point of view. a city wall and 52 gates
were constructed in the city. For increasing the beauty of city and fulfilling the water requirement
Nahar-e- Amberi System ( hydraulic water carriage system) was developed. There are 12 Nahres
in Aurangabad and they supply drinkable water to different parts of city. A few Nahar supply water
to the lakes of city like Salim Ali Lake, Lotus Lake (Amkhas or town hall lake), Nehru Lake,
Himayat Bag lake, Harsool lake. Imagine the beauty of the city due to the lakes. Hence due to
these reasons, tourists are attracted towards Aurangabad. But due to the careless development of
city, all the historical Nahars (hydraulic ancient water carriage system) are in danger and some of
them have now broken. Also various Lakes, Kham river and Sukhna river are in the same critical
condition. They are highly polluted. Lake like Kamal Talab (Lotus or town hall ) is totally
demolished, In Salim Ali lake, biodiversity is in danger due to discharge of sewerage water in to it.
There is a huge deposition of silt in Himyat Bag Lake. All these nahars, lakes and the river needs
help, so that they can exist for long time to maintain the Ecology. Hence ECO NEEDS
FOUNDATION has come forward to conserve the Aurangabad water resources by launching
“Aurangabad Jalstrot Bachav Abhiyan”.

Salim Ali Lake :

Salim Ali Lake is the biggest lake situated in the heart of the Aurangabad city but due to discharge
of 3 MLD domestic waste water into the lake silt deposition takes place thereby reducing its
depth. It also resulted in degradation of water quality thus in turn adversely affected the health of
people living in surrounding locality.After this Foundation take a initiative to protect the Salim Ali
Lake.