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Bangladesh presses India before Ganges water treaty expires

With a 30-year Ganges water-sharing treaty with India expiring in December, Bangladesh fears failure to strike a new deal could deepen water shortages, threatening tens of millions of livelihoods. In Bangladesh’s parched Barind region, 72-year-old Bikash Soren remembers when the Ganges river flowing in from neighbouring India carried large boats past his village year-round. “For almost three months a year, you hardly see the river flowing,” the Protestant priest said. Two farmers died by suicide