Ice stupta: An approach

 In a story published in national geographic megazine, highlights the problems faces by the people who lived in the high altitude area of Ladakh. The people are the most vulnerable for the climate change. Even the 1 degree Celsius increase in the temperature has caused huge negative impact on the glaciers of the Himalaya since few years. Now with the melting of ice with the rise temperature the community is facing the scarcity of water in summer times. Even this part of the land also not graced with the monsoonal clouds and the annual rain fall is very less in comparison to other parts of the country. During the winter occasion the soil is also in frozen state which do not allow the proper irrigation to that period and in the summer times the ice got dried up which results in scarcity of water in this Himalayan regions.

Taking this problem as a challenge an engineer, environmentalist, re-formalist Sonam_Wangchuk  came with a brilliant idea to solve this water scarcity problem Himalayan regions. He and his team came up with a brilliant idea in which  a stupa of ice much like Buddhist stupa is built by assembling the ices like an artificial glacier in the low altitude shaded region of Himalayas where the sunlight do not get in contact with the ice stupa. As the sunlight do not directly fall onto it because it is built in the shaded region, it create favorable conditions for the Ice stupa to store the water in the form of Ice for longer period. This is due to the reason that this artificial glacier has small exposure to the environment with the surface of Ice Stupa in comparison to the spread ed form in mountains. So the ice in the summer times melts slowly and provide water for domestic use and irrigation purpose.

In this way the water scarcity problem is being tackled in the high altitude regions of Himalaya by making this artificial glaciers called "Ice stupa"