What disappoints me in this regard is people who buy flats in those apartments knowing well that the complex is encroaching a lake(bed), eventually a demolition happens. But really how careless would you have to be, to buy there at the first place.
>>Four years back having an Air Conditioner at your home in Bangalore was very rare.
It is, Even now. In the insides of the city where there are more individual homes than apartments.
But, some times a few flat owners have no other options at all. I hear, the flats along the Electronic city road, receive crazy levels of dust every day. Same with those near Hebbal.
Also even in cases where lakes haven't been approached, due absence of civic planning, they obvious can't pipe sewage into the normal sewage pipes. Given those pipes were built for individual homes, not massive apartment townships. What they do now is send sewage to lakes. Case in point Bellandur lake and Ulsoor lake in Bangalore. By definition these are not lakes, but cesspools.