Reinforcing the research on community centric design, this is an opportunity to design safe access to holy rivers and tributaries for the rural, peri urban and urban communities for ritual bathing and cremation. The emphasis of this consolidated effort along the Ganga basin, is to create public infrastructure while ensuring use of technology and innovation to manage water and solid waste pollution. Balanced with this futuristic vision is traditional thinking and design vocabulary to facilitate continuity in customs associated with water.