Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「In the Ladakh region of northern India—one of the highest, driest inhabited places in the world—meltwater from winter snows in the Himalayan mountains have sustained its tiny villages for centuries. Now, like many other places across India, the area is facing a water crisis.⠀ ⠀ Population growth, modernization, climate change and decades-long mismanagement have spawned a resource crisis. Nearly all of India's biggest cities are rapidly depleting their groundwater reserves, and 40% of India's people could lack drinking water by the end of the next decade, according to a government-policy think tank.⠀ ⠀ "We can't waste a drop," says Jigmat Stanzin, who serves as churpon in the village of Saboo, managing the distribution of snowmelt through canals and sluices to family farms.⠀ ⠀ Nearby in Leh, the largest city in Ladakh, a tourism boom has pressured water supplies, and people must rely on water must be delivered by tanker truck. ⠀ ⠀ As a whole, India is running out of water in more places, in more different ways, putting more people at risk, than perhaps any other country. ⠀ ⠀ Read more at the link in our bio.⠀ ⠀ 📷: @garethphillips_ for @wsjphotos」8月20日 20時01分 - wsj

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In the Ladakh region of northern India—one of the highest, driest inhabited places in the world—meltwater from winter snows in the Himalayan mountains have sustained its tiny villages for centuries. Now, like many other places across India, the area is facing a water crisis.⠀
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Population growth, modernization, climate change and decades-long mismanagement have spawned a resource crisis. Nearly all of India's biggest cities are rapidly depleting their groundwater reserves, and 40% of India's people could lack drinking water by the end of the next decade, according to a government-policy think tank.⠀
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"We can't waste a drop," says Jigmat Stanzin, who serves as churpon in the village of Saboo, managing the distribution of snowmelt through canals and sluices to family farms.⠀
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Nearby in Leh, the largest city in Ladakh, a tourism boom has pressured water supplies, and people must rely on water must be delivered by tanker truck. ⠀
⠀
As a whole, India is running out of water in more places, in more different ways, putting more people at risk, than perhaps any other country. ⠀
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Read more at the link in our bio.⠀
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📷: @garethphillips_ for @wsjphotos


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