Strangely enough, ahead of her meeting with Mamata, Hillary Clinton had said that the water-sharing issue between India and Bangladesh should be solved amicably. "These are certainly on the list of things I would want to talk about,"

Clinton said this at an interactive session in Kolkata when asked whether sharing of the Teesta waters with Bangladesh would be on her agenda of talks with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. 

Stating that the United States had no interest in how the water-sharing pact was arrived at, she said that it wanted the issue to be amicably resolved as "these will become hot issues, literally hot issues in the future." 

Clinton said, "Water is an issue that will increasingly become contentious. "The alternative will be perhaps a conflict which will lead to dislocation, refugee problems and destabilisation that we are seeing in places in North Africa. We have to work
together," she said.