By the Waters, Ahmedabad | Inside India’s newest man-made lake
Suryam Developers is constructing a 100-acre residential estate near Ahmedabad featuring a massive man-made lake called 'Blue Heart'. The project utilizes Dutch engineering to create a closed-loop biological water system designed to handle Gujarat's erratic rainfall patterns.
Why it matters
It highlights a shift in Indian luxury real estate toward sustainable, water-conscious engineering in arid regions.
Tumbleweeds roll across the road, stark against the heat haze on the horizon, as we leave Ahmedabad city limits. In the suburbs, the landscape is a dry, dusty brown, which makes our destination all the more difficult to visualise: a massive 72,600 square yard man-made lake nestled in the heart of By the Waters, an upcoming ultra-exclusive 100-acre residential estate by Suryam Developers.
Yes, a lake. In the middle of parched scrubland. The surprise lessens when we learn Witteveen+Bos has engineered the hydrology for this project. The Dutch know a thing or two about working with water in unlikely places — after all, they literally wrangled their country from the sea.
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