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Students take to the street against attack
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Indian engineer builds glaciers
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Monday, November 02, 2009 04:39:27 PM,
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New Delhi:
A retired Indian engineer, Chewang Norphel, 76, has built 12 new
glaciers already and is racing to create five more before he dies,
and by then he hopes to train enough new 'icemen' to continue the
work he is doing to save the world's 'third icecap' from being
transformed into rivers, reports Telegraph.
His race against time is shared by Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime
Minister, who called on the region's Himalayan nations, including
China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan, to constitute a united front to
tackle glacial melting.
The Himalayan glaciers, including
Kashmir's Siachen glacier, feed the region's most important rivers,
as they irrigate farm lands in Tibet, Nepal and Bangladesh and
throughout the Indian subcontinent. The acceleration in glacial
melting has been blamed as the reason for the increase in floods
that have destroyed homes and crops.
But Chewang Norphel, the "Iceman of Ladakh", believes that he has an
answer.
By diverting melt water through a network of pipes into artificial
lakes in the shaded side of mountain valleys, Norphel states that he
has created new glaciers.
A dam or embankment is built to keep the water in, which freezes at
night and remains frozen in the absence of direct sunlight. This
water remains frozen until March, when the start of summer melts the
new glacier and releases the water into the rivers downside.
His glaciers have been able to each store up to one million cubic
feet of ice, which in turn can irrigate 200 hectares of farm land.
This can make the difference between crop failure and a bumper crop
of more than 1,000 tons of wheat for the farmers.
Norphel says that he has seen the effects of global warming on
farmland as snows have become thinner on the ground and ice rivers
have melted away.
His work has now been recognized by the Indian government, which has
given him 16,000 pounds to build five new glaciers. But time is his
enemy, he told The Hindustan Times. "I'm planning to train villagers
with instruction CDs that I have made, so that I can pass on the
knowledge before I die," he said.
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