{
  "id": 12433779,
  "title": "Ganga Water Treaty is ‘flawed’, needs to be updated: Bangladesh river expert",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/ganga-water-treaty-is-flawed-needs-to-be-updated-bangladesh-river",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-06T17:19:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/ganga-water-treaty-is-flawed-needs-to-be-updated-bangladesh-river-expert/article71552590.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "“The Ganga Water Treaty is three decades old and flawed as it does not include a guarantee clause. It also does not have ecological flow and environmental flow considerations,” Manjur A. Chowdhury, chairman of Bangladesh River Conservation Commission told The Hindu",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}