Monsoon season: The river politics behind South Asia's floods.

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▼ When it comes to water resources, relations between India and Nepal have never been easy.
But in recent years, the relationship has begun to worsen during the annual monsoon season, which lasts from June to September.
Flooding inflames tensions between the neighbours, with angry residents on both sides blaming those across the border for their woes.
This year, floods have been wreaking havoc in the region. Dozens have been killed in Nepal and Bangladesh, and more than three million people have been displaced in north and north-eastern India.
India and Nepal share an open border that stretches for nearly 1,800km (1,118 miles).
More than 6,000 rivers and rivulets flow down to northern India from Nepal and they contribute around 70% of the flow of the Ganges river during the dry season.
So, when these rivers overflow, floodwaters devastate the plains of Nepal and India.
In the last few years, there has been palpable anger on the Nepali side of the border in particular.
Nepal blames dyke-like structures along the border that it says block the floodwaters from flowing south into India. During an investigation in eastern Nepal two years ago, the BBC saw structures on the Indian side that appeared to do just this.
This was at a location where locals from both sides of the border had clashed in 2016 after Nepal objected to the embankment.
Nepali officials say there are around 10 such structures, which inundate thousands of hectares of land in Nepal.
Indian officials say they are roads but experts in Nepal say they are embankments that protect Indian border villages from the floods.
Gaur, the headquarters of Rautahat district in southern Nepal, remained inundated for three days last week and officials feared clashes.
"After much panic, two gates beneath the Indian embankment were opened and it did help us," Krishna Dhakal, the superintendent of the armed police force, told the BBC.
Indian officials did not reply to requests for comment.
The two countries have been holding meetings on the issue for years now but nothing much has changed. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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