Ganga Water Treaty 2026, Farakka Barrage and Bihar's Water Security Why in News?
- The approaching renewal phase of India-Bangladesh arrangements over sharing of Ganga waters has brought the 1996 Ganges Water Sharing Treaty back into policy debate.
- Farakka Barrage and downstream water security are central to the discussion.
- For UPSC and BPSC, the issue combines international relations, federalism, hydrology, ecology, agriculture, navigation and Bihar's specific interests. UPSC/BPSC Syllabus Linkage
- GS II: India-Bangladesh relations.
- GS II: Treaties and federal dimensions of foreign policy.
- GS III: Water resources, environment, disaster management and agriculture.
- Geography: Ganga river system, **Farakka and deltaic processes.
- Bihar-specific relevance**: sedimentation, floods, river morphology, irrigation and state participation in national water negotiations.
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