According to World Bank’s Report “Water Crisis in South Asia”, Bangladesh is a delta, shaped by the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna framework. As the nation just gets the remaining water stream after upstream utilization, the subsequent water deficiency amid the bone-dry season dependably brings grave worries up in water-imparting exchanges to India. The India-Bangladesh water conflicts are about sensible portion, surge control, and starvation alleviation in the two nations, especially Bangladesh. The main question is tied in with developing huge dams in the bowl to build the dry season stream of the Ganges.
The Indian proposition calls for building a canal across Bangladesh to interface the Brahmaputra with the Ganges, at a site over the Farakka Barrage. Bangladesh’s US $ 20 billion counter proposal is the development of supplies and dams in the Himalayan lower regions in India and Nepal to store surge waters, for controlling saltiness, and producing hydroelectricity in Nepal for local utilize and fare purposes. Bangladesh’s proposition — which was more logical when contrasted with the Indian proposition for tending to issues like surges, arrive development at Bay of Bengal because of residue and silt stores, power deficiencies, saltiness challenges, and so on — couldn’t be acknowledged because of Indian enthusiasm for its own particular proposition. Along these lines, Nepal and Bangladesh were not conveyed to the table to talk about the issue.Nepal-India water undertakings reflect developing doubt and reservations. Nepal faces a great deal of difficulties in building its water stores inferable from relentless Indian resistance.
Nepal’s doubt has developed because of the prejudicial bargains that were concluded with India from the Sharada Dam development (1927), Treaty and Letters of Exchange of 1950 and 1965, Koshi Agreement (1954), Gandak Agreement (1959), Tanakpur Agreement (1991) to the Mahakali Treaty (1996). The Koshi, Gandak and Mahakali ventures were controlled through reciprocal understandings. As indicated by Clause 9 of the Gandak Agreement, no task prone to cause lessening in the volume of water can be worked by Nepal. In this manner, endeavors have been made to force keeps an eye on the nation’s freedom and its monetary advancement planning to deter ventures set forth by Nepal or came to with the help of outside nations through loans and financial help.
Conjuring this condition, India, hampered development of the Marshyandi-1 hydro venture prompting an encounter between King Birendra and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The treaty signed was useful to India to the detriment of in excess of one fourth of the Nepali populace.
