Officer's Marathon™ Quiz

Wells were the principal source of water as early as the Harappan culture. This ancient city had over 700 wells, and nearly every home in Mohenjo-Daro had at least one private well

The Indus Valley Civilization (Sindhu Ghati Sabhyata) was named after the people who lived on the banks of the Indus River at the period. It's also known as the Harappan civilisation since Harappa was the first site of this civilisation to be unearthed.

There were two large staircases in "The Great Bath" that functioned as an entrance to the pool. All of the walls were built with carefully fitted bricks and mud and plastered with gypsum, making the floors and walls watertight

Almost every house unit at Mohenjo-daro was equipped with a private bathing area with drains to take the dirty water out into a larger drain that emptied into a sewage drain. Bathing areas had water tight floors to keep moisture from seeping into the other rooms nearby.

During times of drought, the stepwell may have been built to guarantee enough access to water. Dholavira possesses the earliest archaeological evidence of stepwells, as well as water tanks or reservoirs with flights of stairs