Natural river flow obstruction risks groundwater arsenic contamination, UNESCO-Sponsored International Conference on Water Scarcity, Global Changes and Groundwater Management Responses, University of California at Irvine, California, 1-5 December, 2008.

... The Ramsar Convention mission reads " the conservation and wise use of all wetlands through local, regional, and national actions and international cooperation, as a contribution towards achieving sustainable developments throughout the world " . Being a responsible member of this great convention, India violates the pillars of the organization by causing depletion and contamination of surface and groundwater, eradication of inland waterways and natural breeding and raising grounds of more than 100 species of Gangetic fishes, depriving people of their cheapest source of calcium and indispensable animal protein from fish, loss of people's seasonal and annual livelihoods that were tied to the Ganges, its distributaries and sub-distributaries rivers and other surface water bodies, contamination of more than 75 million people's drinking water with arsenic, break off of families with a spouse suffering from arsenicosis, 20% fatalities from arsenicosis, climate change with an increased number of warmer summer days and colder winter days than the pre-Farakka time, scanty and erratic rainfalls, loss of numerous biodiversity before any inventory preparation, inland intrusion of saline water front and increased coastal erosion, destruction of the facilities for the observance of the minority Hindu's religious rites and general people's learning and performing water sports and other recreational activities, etc. etc. India has caused an ecosystem crash in the Ganges basin (Adel, 2001Adel, , 2002Adel, , 2003Adel, , 2004aAdel, , 2004bAdel, , 2005Adel, , 2008aAdel, , 2008bAdel, , 2008cAdel, , 2008dAdel, , 2012aAdel, , 2012bAdel, , 2012cAdel, , 2012dAdel, , 2013aAdel, , 2013b). India availed the benefit of being an upstream riparian country to pirate Bangladesh ecosystem's water. ...