Chile adopts Himalayan ice stupa technique to combat drought and revive Andes ecosystem

[@BetterWorldEcosystems]

This is why accessible information is so crucial to building resilience in the coming years of more intense climate change. Chileans and Himalayans, a world and language apart, yet can learn from eachother through the internet. There needs to be a general database to compare and contrast all sorts of these small scale solutions.

[@rizwansardar2347]

In Pakistan villagers use 'snow grafting' technique. They villagers voluntarily collect the snow from the other mountain and plant them in under the stones where there are no direct sun light.

[@Debbie-henri]

That sounds a good idea, and I imagine less water would be lost. Before refrigeration, some of the larger houses in England would collect winter ice from lakes/ponds on estates, and put it in specially built underground structures. This would give them a store of 'ice' for all but a few weeks of the rest of the year.

[@Sparrow_1204]

1:47 that's famous sonam Wangchuck. Indian engineer and innovator 😊

[@nahidnegar8814]

Sonam wangchuk great innovator from ladhak India.

[@hassankhalid7869]

@@nahidnegar8814 Nahid❤hey!

[@knowledgeringsstalkers1795]

Al Jazeera, we kindly request you to address the apparent omission of India's name in your coverage of the ICE Stupa technique, which originates from the Ladakh region of India. The Himalayas have been an integral and unique part of India since time immemorial, as is Ladakh. It would be appreciated if future reporting avoids any perceived bias or negative connotation towards India (Bharat 🇮🇳) by accurately acknowledging its contributions and heritage.

[@owaisqasim5054]

I am from the mountain region of northern Pakistan, Chitral. We have this issue there. The glacier melt rapidly and till the month of June and after the when when critical season for crops and plants arrive in July, we left with no water. This technique could do us many goods, If we are would be able to do it.

[@Rocky-m2c8z]

The pioneer of this technique is sonam wangchuk of ladakh ,india ❤

[@alinaqirizvi1441]

​@@Rocky-m2c8zladakh, occupied kashmir

[@biswajitpattanaik8268]

@alinaqirizvi1441 Yes! china occupied Kashmir & pakistan occupied Kashmir!!

[@nujjigram]

​@alinaqirizvi1441wangchuk wears the flag proudly. Unlike your kashmiri people who rebel and need communication blackout in pakistan

[@bhagyajitdas1498]

​@alinaqirizvi1441 pakistan occupied gilgit and Kashmir

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

I visited the rainbow mountain in September 2023😊 luckily, that part of the Andes is still covered in snow in September

[@stonew1927]

September would be late winter or early Spring for them, so makes sense they'd still have snow at that time of the year.

[@miguelleonardocastelonunez9888]

Sorry to ruin your dreams but that's wrong, in the Andes, winter is the time where glaciers and snow are at its lowest, last and this year were for us really hard as the drought could be really felt, plus, because of the Amazonas rainforest great fire, it's notorious how much ice our mountains have lost :(

[@1.4142]

no way there's any snow there by march

[@AhJodie]

Wow! So brilliant!

[@ashleybasson5664]

Brilliant! Another option could be multiple gabions built across the valley. It will catch and pile the snow behind it and will melt slower due to the thickness of the snow build up.

[@WolfGaming-nr5tw]

The news agency used word stupa from himalaya not India . This is how they control narative about anything good in India

[@sirajuddinbalti6710]

Because Ladakh is illegal occupied area

[@Bastillemotors]

I agree this is how they twist everything.

[@cherylm2C6671]

Someone is thinking. A snow machine, 24-7

[@thebuddha4208]

Go man go

[@ysucf]

Lol It's hard to name India right??😂😂😂

[@biswajitpattanaik8268]

Why doesn't aljazeera mention it that, it was developed by Sonam Wangchuk & his team, from Ladakh, India? Too hard to swallow or what? Even in pakistan people are using the same & now are claiming it its thier age old solution, talk about stealing something, when this issue isn't that old!

[@prajakt0789]

*how is sonam wangchuk being treated in our own country.* *Such a shame traitors moti, bjp and andhbhakts.*

[@biswajitpattanaik8268]

@prajakt0789 LoL! Get yourself checked! He is treated fairly well! But his demand & views he expressed about Leh & Ladakh is a joke! Stop branding everything as Andhbhakt, when you don't even Understand a thing! Get a life & vomit this BS at your bathroom!

[@santhoshv3028]

​@@prajakt0789 modi is not India. Stop making bs comment here. Al Jazeera can't digest it's indian invention accept the reality.

[@prajakt0789]

@@santhoshv3028 That idiot illiterate moti is India for andhbhakts like you otherwise you would have protested against the malpractices happening in the country.

[@chunkbackhump2542]

lol keep crying and showing us how petty indians are

[@egonkirchof]

How we should do things: find a place, make a deep study to see if it is fit for human life, if it is move there. How we do things: move to some crazy environment. Reason: Because. After you are there, complain for the rest of your life about the environment and try to change it to fit your needs.

[@thebuddha4208]

One billionaire could do all of that overnight

[@philliphutcheson4219]

And waste a billion dollars just like the government? No thanks. The good ones plan things out.

[@vijaykumar-c5n2y]

Sad❤❤

[@Sjalabais]

A 15 year drought sounds insane, but maybe vulnerable mountain areas are not meant to sustain humans and horse based agriculture and tourism? Also curious as to how the sprayed water turns into ice when it is meltwater from higher up. Doesn't that mean it's too warm for ice to form?

[@vinayakkothari6162]

@@Sjalabais latent heat of solidification, and purity. Basically, at 0°C, both liquid water and ice can exist. However, existing impurities in water (think gravel, sand, and other dissolved materials) can lower the freezing temperature sufficiently, leading to unfiltered water freezing at -2 to -3°C. In addition to this, spraying of the water distributes it over a large surface area, allowing for faster cooling, and increase contact area with the ice already formed.

[@arunramachandran5012]

When the water is sprayed in a fine mist, the water droplets have a lot more surface area to interact with the cold air. That causes the mist to freeze while flowing water is still running. An everyday example of this is that even after temperatures go below freezing for several days, it still takes lake water or streams many days to freeze, and even then, they only start freezing from the outwards in. Because the outermost layer of water gets more contact with the cold air due to waves and is also shallower, so there's less water depth, which means the cold is in direct contact with more water per volume. This technique was invented by Sonam Wangchuk in Ladakh, India - which has similar conditions to the Chilean mountains. Both are extremely cold mountain regions but both are also cold deserts (except for the glaciers and lakes). However, when glaciers dry up in summers, there is no water absorbed and retained by trees and vegetation because the landscape is mostly rocks and arid soil, and there's very little green cover, as you can see in the video.

[@Sjalabais]

@@arunramachandran5012 Excellent explanation, thank you for taking your time!

[@halnelson5936]

​@arunramachandran5012 Interesting comment but the last sentence is pretty circular.

[@arunramachandran5012]

@@halnelson5936 It IS circular. If you look at how desertification happens, it IS circular. Lack of vegetation causes water to run off instead of getting absorbed and retained. And the water run off further erodes the soil which in turn causes less vegetation to grow.

[@Beijingcorn420]

I interested in idea. S people could benefit from is large water tanks. Just like how they save grass you now need to save water for future use was well That's what we do where I live. Is and it really helps

[@A3Kr0n]

Using branches, sticks and logs is much more sustainable than using A.I, solar energy and satellite Internet technology. That's completely insane.

[@Tekkzn]

Solar energy is the most efficient of all. How do you think all those sticks and logs are made. Using photosynthesis silly .

[@DSAK55]

🤡🤡

[@BetterWorldEcosystems]

Are you sure you don't want to hookup your snow melt into the blockchain?

[@philliphutcheson4219]

@@BetterWorldEcosystemsheat up your crypto market by cooling the water… I like the way you think.

[@AbiemMiqyal-qf4xu]

They should made thausand of it

[@MalyaleeMannan]

Indian technology 🇮🇳

[@janofb]

He's mixing up numbers. He claims "in the last 50 years half of the world's ice mass has melted". This isn't even close to being true. Over the last 50 years, half of the ice that's melted has melted over the last 30-40 years of it. But the ice that's melted represents only 0.056% of the total ice mass. That's less than 1/10th of 1%. So no, 50% of the ice mass hasn't melted, less than 1/10th of 1% of it has. See how lack of comprehension makes people suddenly claim the problem is 1000 times worse than it is?

[@JeffreyGoddin]

No

[@AllMagasGoToGitmo]

@@janofb how much are you getting paid to post this

[@philliphutcheson4219]

@@JeffreyGoddinwell as John Wayne said,”Life is hard. It’s harder if you are stupid.”

[@asifhassan4980]

The issue is Sonam Wangchuk is languishing !! His honeymoon is over !!

[@stonew1927]

Your comment makes absolutely no sense.

[@philliphutcheson4219]

Are you saying his technique doesn’t work or the science behind it is unfounded?

[@asifhassan4980]

@@philliphutcheson4219 His political gimmics didn't work 😅

[@asifhassan4980]

@@stonew1927 To know the senses you must come out n grasp common sense

[@philliphutcheson4219]

@@asifhassan4980 most of the things related to climate are political gimmicks to control the masses.

[@JaySFO2SGN]

Why lie and say half the ice mass on earth melted over the last 50 years? Cool story but lose the lies or correct them when people tell them.

[@anthonymorris5084]

There isn't a water shortage. There is a people overage.

[@stonew1927]

There's both now. Ask the flora and fauna...

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@stonew1927 There will never be a water shortage on this planet. All the water on this planet is still here from the very first day. We also have desalination technology. There is a people overage.

[@stonew1927]

@@anthonymorris5084 I disagree with your first statement. Droughts are a real thing, and desalination plants are costly and not an option for many poorer countries around the world, and not applicable for the millions of people that live far from coastlines. I agree that there are too many people on the planet.

[@philliphutcheson4219]

Try an educated response next time. This is false.

[@philliphutcheson4219]

@@anthonymorris5084we actually need more people.

[@NotiBoii-c6l]

snow grafting invented in pakistan(baltistan) and ice stupa invented in indian occupied jammu and kashmir(ladakh)

[@Consistent05]

Pakistan occupied india . Keep blabbering

[@yayati2539]

It's part of india. People of ladakh are proud Indian. Though gilgit baltistan is occupied by Pakistan nd should be free

[@davidpak271]

Use AI? LOL😂

[@JeffreyGoddin]

You're just letting the internet know you don't understand what AI is.

[@pavelsmith2267]

Isn't it spectacular that all the operating systems cause or create pollution and the only good thing coming from it is the money? Hah hah hah! How amazing when not a single operating system does anything else but make money from other ops systems. It would be a fantasy come into reality if we could concieve of anything simply positive form our systems operations. Truly awestruck we all seem to be!-Commish

[@stonew1927]

You're comment is completely irrelevant to the people, flora and fauna of these regions.

[@debajyotipatra2313]

This area is in Himalayas in india. Why don't you say it ?? We know the reason.😂