For Indian Farmers, Artificial Glaciers Are a High-Altitude Antidote to Drought

Tall, slow-melting “ice stupas” offer a clever way to store water until it’s needed to irrigate summer crops.

For Indian Farmers, Artificial Glaciers Are a High-Altitude Antidote to Drought

Tall, slow-melting “ice stupas” offer a clever way to store water until it’s needed to irrigate summer crops.

Credit: Himalayan Institute of Alternatives Ladakh

Watch a video about the 2020 Ice Stupa Awards in Tarchit village.

Over the last two decades, Geetanjali Krishna has travelled across India to report on the environment, climate change and global health. She co-founded The India Story Agency, a cross-border media collaborative with London-based journalist Sally Howard in 2020. One of the 16 awardees of the Global Health Security Grant 2021 by the European Journalism Centre, her recent by-lines can be found in Times, The British Medical Journal, BBC Future, The Third Pole, and Business Standard.

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