Now Wangchuk is laying a pipeline to build 50 more ice stupas. Each will supply 10 million liters of water a year and irrigate 25 acres of land. Word of his project has reached mountaintops across ...

As reported byPhys.org, communities in Gilgit-Baltistan are building artificial glaciers, or “ice stupas,” to secure a reliable water supply for farming—without the need for dams or storage ...

“We discovered artificial glaciers on YouTube,” Ghulam Haider Hashmi disclosed. Eight ice ‘stupas’ built in Hussainabad village this winter They watched the videos of Sonam ...