Abstract
The article reviews about 100 meetings between India and her counterparts Pakistan and Bangladesh, and the Bangladesh’s consenting, for her least survivability to avoid the worst Indian cornering by the unilateral water piracy, to India’s right to the Ganges water piracy by the Farakka Barrage over the Ganges to establish the No. 1 waterway across India. Sources of information have been published articles and news in electronic and print media, site visitations, experts’ interviews, field work, travel accounts, research institutions and government offices. The Bangladesh’s courteous consent to a 41-day test-run of the barrage in April 1975 ended in Indian unilateral piracy that continued until 1977 when a 5-year consent to piracy was signed after raising the issue to the UN General Assembly that prompted Indian dailies heinous comments against Bangladesh. Later, in two memoranda of understanding the piracy right was granted in 1982 and 1985. Unilateral water piracy continued 1988 through 1996 toward the end of which the consent to a 30-year piracy right was signed. Indian water piracy by other dams and barrages upstream of the Farakka is on the rise causing the ever-decreasing Ganges discharge through Bangladesh that has resulted in the world’s worst ecocide. The UN should consider water pirates committing multiple crimes of ecosystem water deprivation, drinking water poisoning, climate change, and global environmental change, and subject them to international sanction, and look for downstream ecosystem damages of any degree by the upstream water management in the criminal investigation.
Highlights
Historic meetings held between the two parties, worked at the background to set up the evolved scenarios mentioned later, has been put because of the reviews of these historic meetings form one of the objectives of this article and were discovered in the search of the literature
On 8 March 1952, a period of 4 months later, India informed Pakistan that she would be informed of the plan before its materialization
India has used the upstream water piracy from the Ganges and other common rivers between India and Bangladesh as a weapon for cornering Bangladesh who clamors for an agreement, for her least survival, and succumbs to India’s mandated conditions
Summary
An ecosystem cannot survive with just about 40% of its founding and sustaining water requirements. The Ganges and the Hooghly - Two Separate River Systems. The Ganges and the Hooghly have been two separate river systems for, at least, several hundred years beyond the establishment of the Calcutta Port at the mouth of the Hooghly River. The downstream Gangetic ecosystem in Bangladesh was founded and maintained by the Ganges discharge through Bangladesh. The downstream Ganges which is known as the Padma flows through Bangladesh to fall into the Bay of Bengal after meeting with the Brahmaputra and with the Meghna.
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