The project aims at upgrading the existing slums near Bellandur Lake and improving the sanitation issues. The water pollution and water scarcity are major issues that will be tackled as well as waste and sewage management. 

Bangalore suffers from the same major urbanisation problems seen in many fast-growing cities in developing countries: rapidly escalating social inequality, mass displacement and dispossession, proliferation of slum settlements, and epidemic public health crisis due to severe water shortage and sewage problems in poor and working-class neighbourhoods.

 

The worldwide practice of Hinduism encompasses a wide variety of beliefs. However, a prevailing belief that is shared by most, if not all, Hindus is the importance of physical and spiritual cleanliness and well-being, a striving to attain purity and avoid pollution. This widespread aspiration lends itself to a reverence for water as well as the integration of water into most Hindu rituals, as it is believed that water has spiritually cleansing powers.

 

With such an intimacy to water, and the severe water pollution problem, India has experienced an increase in the number of deaths in both the urban and rural areas.  Deaths due to water related diseases in India are in the range of nearly 80%. 

Bangalore experiences a tropical savanna climate with distinct wet and dry seasons. Due to its high elevation, Bangalore usually enjoys a more moderate climate throughout the year. The surface winds in Bangalore have seasonal character between east wind and west wind. The average high wind speed is 17 km/h in the month of July, and the average low wind speed is 8km/h in the months of April and October. The radiation level is usually highest in late January and early February, then drops down to lowest from April till August. Because of its relative proximity to the equator, Bangalore does not see a drastic sun angle throughout the year, and the optimal solar orientation for buildings is only 5 degree to the East-West direction.      

Bangalore has a ten-axis star shaped road system that consists of five major radial roads and five secondary radial roads that converge towards the city center from all directions. Bangalore City has witnessed a phenomenal growth in vehicle population  because of IT and other associated industries. Pedestrians are losing space on roads and on-street parking often takes precedent over pedestrian infrastructure like paved sidewalks. People walk among motorized traffic in Bangalore. Pedestrian infrastructure has taken a backseat in the planning of Indian cities. 

The river Kaveri provides around 80% of the total water supply to the city with the remaining 20% being obtained from the Thippagondanahalli and Hesaraghatta reservoirs of the Arkavathi River. Bangalore receives 800 million liters of water a day, more than any other Indian city. There are three main sewage treatment plants, which are located in the Vrishabavathy, Koramangala-Chellaghatta and Hebbal valleys. The Koramangala and Challaghatta Treatment Plant, receives more than 30% of the entire city’s capacity of sewage (721 MLD)