Although India insists on bilateralism even while sharing of river-flow data for flood forecasting, officials from Bangladesh have told the BBC that the idea has not worked well because they receive the figure of the flow only from areas nearby the Indo-Bangladesh border areas.
Starving either the Food and Drug Administration or the National Institutes of Health would be disastrous for the industry, cutting off the flow of new products to the market and the flood of new ideas from academia to industry research labs.
Regardless of the cost and no matter how frustrating the results, the Chinese feel they must do what they can to stave off a total collapse in the hermit kingdom, lest the steady flow of refugees now coming into China suddenly becomes a flood.
Planned tasks for the shovel brigade include reinforcing the spring and diverting its flow by using boulders, sand, downed trees and other flood debris.