While there is no dispute about the shortfall, Dhaka discounts the Indian claim about the quantum of water it is releasing for Bangladesh from Farakka. "Bangladesh is not receiving its due," says Ainun Nishat, professor of Water Resources at the Engineering University, Dhaka, who played a key role in drafting the treaty. A number of factors could be responsible, he says. One, there's definitely some discrepancy between the Indian claim and the actual amount of water being released by India; two, withdrawal of water upstream between Farakka in India and Hardinge Bridge point in Bangladesh may be reducing the flow; three, there could be seepage of water between the two points where the flow is measured. "It's simply not true that we're violating the accord," insists Dev Mukherjee, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh. It's an unusual phenomenon, he says, and that's why there is a provision in the treaty which calls for urgent consultations between the two countries should such a situation arise.