{"id":69144,"date":"2025-01-27T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jan\/27\/ice-stupas-of-the-ladakh-desert-an-ingenious-solution-to-water-scarcity-a-picture-essay"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T09:01:07","slug":"ice-stupas-of-the-ladakh-desert-an-ingenious-solution-to-water-scarcity-a-picture-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69144","title":{"rendered":"Ice stupas of the Ladakh desert: an ingenious solution to water scarcity \u2013 a picture essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers in the northern Indian region used to rely on snow and glacier meltwater, but the climate crisis is disrupting the water cycle \u2013 which means new ways of storing water are needed <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All photographs by Ciril Jazbec, winner of the Unesco and Onewater <a href=\"https:\/\/onewater.blue\/contest\/walk-of-water-water-towers-07c13e86ca3b\">Walk of Water<\/a> photography competition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the Himalayan glaciers recede and water scarcity intensifies, communities in Ladakh, a high-altitude desert in northern India, are turning to innovative means to safeguard their future.<\/p>\n<p>This fragile region experiences an average annual rainfall of about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/378989469_Assessment_of_Rainfall_Variability_in_Ladakh_amidst_of_evolving_Climate\">100mm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tsering Angchuk, a farmer from the village of Stase-Dho, helped build a 22-metre ice stupa for the village<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jan\/27\/ice-stupas-of-the-ladakh-desert-an-ingenious-solution-to-water-scarcity-a-picture-essay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers in the northern Indian region used to rely on snow and glacier meltwater, but the climate crisis is disrupting the water cycle \u2013 which means new ways of storing water are needed All photographs by Ciril Jazbec, winner of the Unesco and Onewater&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[826,3241,759,59,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-water","category-deserts","category-glaciers","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69145,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69144\/revisions\/69145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}