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Because sometimes you need to make a glacier...
This is an impressive story of one man taking a step to preserve water resources for the people of in the upper Himalayas as they lose the snowmelt while the glaciers recede. Quite innovative. Where else could his solution be applied? Go to the site because there are a couple of videos too.
http://www.upworthy.com/everyone-thought-his-ideas-for-making-ice-sounded-crazy-but-now-hes-a-national-hero?c=ufb1
This is Chewang Norphel, who came from a farming family and spent his whole career as a civil engineer here. Watching farmers struggle to grow crops (only to give up and migrate to eke out a meager living in the city), Norphel focused his work on how to capture water in the winter and store it until spring when farmers need it.
