Are Man-Made Glaciers the Answer to the Himalayas’ Melting Ice?
How one man’s plan to irrigate the Ladakh desert is drawing inspiration and critics
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8 min readMay 29, 2019
LADAKH, INDIA — In a region with scant water — less than 4 inches of annual rainfall — Sonam Wangchuk, a mechanical engineer by trade, has taken it upon himself to irrigate the mountainous desert of Ladakh, a sprawling…
