‘Running water, pure water ’ . In Rajasthan, .this proverb stands on very shaky grounds, for here in the kuins, water, though still, remains pure throughout the year and sometimes even more. The principle behind this is simple: to hold the drops of rain or palar water in a very clean space and stock it. Be it kund, kundi, tanka (pond, small pond, reservoir), the names and form may change, but the function is the same: to preserve for tomorrow the drops that have fallen today. Ponds are to be found everywhere. Inside the forts constructed atop mountains, in temples, at the foothills of mountains, in the courtyard of houses, on rooftops, in villages, outside the villages, in uninhabited places, in fields; everywhere, at any time, these can be made.