The Ganges or Ganga, is a trans-boundary river of India and Bangladesh. The 2,525 km (1,569 mi) river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, and flows south and east through the Gangetic Plain of North India into Bangladesh, where it empties into the Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world, that forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Photo source: ©© Lecercle
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In a recent interview with BBC, India’s minister of water resources unveiled the government’s massive plan to divert major rivers including the Ganges and Brahmaputra.
Any diversion of the natural flow of the rivers will be like redrawing the geography of the area.
What basically goes wrong with the concept of the project is that it sees a river only as a source of water, not as an entire ecosystem.
This unilateral move by India is a clear violation of the basic tenet of all the international regulations regarding water bodies i.e. no withdrawal from commonly shared water body without mutual agreement…
