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knowledge of East Pakistan and later Bangladesh. Diversion of water from Farakka
Barrage started in 1975 in the presence of engineers and experts of Bangladesh. In
the beginning, a short-term agreement and two MOUs were executed and thereafter,
a long-term treaty was signed in keeping with international guidelines but problems
and dissatisfaction of the concerned countries remained.
Thus, although the Ganga River Treaty could have been another example of the
two concerned countries solving the problems of an 'international' river, flowing
through them, it remained short of this ideal owing to lack of mutual cooperation,
accommodation and understanding in the part of the lower riparian country, i.e.,
Bangladesh in spite of sacrifices and friendliness of the upper riparian country, i.e.,
India.
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