lol yea kinda lack in knowledge on this issue you have sis
really ? show me the picture of teesta river
I have source for claim of commandment area.Let me dig it.
Tessta river has a length of 300 km out of which 60% flows through India and 40% through BD.(Dont have source for this,that is what other Bengalis are saying)
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What is minimally needed, he insists, is an interim sharing agreement[SUP]9[/SUP]
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Coming to any such agreement is, however, far from simple.
In 1983, at the 25th meeting of the JRC, India and Bangladesh did reach an ad hoc agreement on the Teesta. The agreement gave India 39% of the water, Bangladesh 36%, leaving the remaining 25% unallocated or for the river. Valid up to 31 December 1985, it was further extended to 31 December 1987. It was entirely a paper agreement, however, never implemented. Moreover, of precisely whator how, when, or wherethese percentages were to be taken was never specified.
Bangladesh, according to officials in Dhaka, currently claims 20% of the dry season flow for the river, the balance (80%) to be split evenly (40/40%) by India and Bangladesh. This has been resisted by the Indian side, which maintains that 85% of the Teestas command area, the agricultural land served by the river, is in India and only 15% in Bangladesh (Kumar,2005).
The water, say the Indians, should be shared on this basis.
The Indian formula, promoted in
meetings of the JEC, has been to leave 10% of the dry season flow to the river, with the remaining 90% split 17% to Bangladesh, 83% to India. This converts to a dry season formula of 10% for the river, 75% for India, 15% for Bangladesha formula that Bangladesh water experts, taking into account not only the precedent-setting implications of any such formula, but also the countrys future needs for sustaining fisheries, navigation, biodiversity, domestic fresh water supply and future industrial uses, consider unacceptable.
Not to be found wanting in resourcefulness,
Bangladesh water officials have responded to the Indian formula with an imaginative one of their own. It proposes that a new conceptthat of the Teesta Dependent Area (TDA)be factored into the water-sharing formula. According to this reconceptualization of water entitlements based on space satellite imaging of earth contours and other physical aspects of the Teesta catchment area, Bangladesh emerges with a TDA of 1,800,000 hectares and India with only 1,100,000 hectares. Needless to say, this novel approach has not won any followerson the Indian side of the border. At the JRCs 36th meeting in September 2005, the Teesta
Water Policy 9:3 (2007) 231-251 - Robert G. Wirsing and Christopher Jasparro - River rivalry: water disputes, resource insecurity and diplomatic deadlock in South Asia