Udaipur, one of India’s oldest and most densely built urban areas, was suffering the aftermath of annual monsoon seasons. Sanitary sewer overflows were commonplace.
Like in many of the country’s centuries-old metropolises, streets are excessively narrow, sanitary infrastructure is way past its life expectancy and population has grown so that capacity of existing systems is insufficient. These factors led to the selection of one of Udaipur’s oldest neighborhoods — the Silawatwari district — as an ideal candidate for pipe bursting of its sanitary sewer lines to increase capacity and mitigate SSOs that were commonplace during annual monsoon rain events.
In 2015, India declared the Smart Cities
