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On 15 November 2016, Sonam Wangchuk was awarded the Rolex Awards for Enterprise for his work on ice stupa. Aerial view of Ice stupa and Phyang monastery from flight Ladakh is a cold desert where agriculture is not practiced during the winter due to frozen soil and low air temperatures.
Wangchuk was instrumental in the launch of Operation New Hope in 1994, a collaboration of government, village communities and the civil society to bring reforms in the government school system. [16] He invented the Ice Stupa technique that creates artificial glaciers, used for storing winter water in the form of a cone-shaped ice heap. [17] [18 ...
Jul 20, 2017 · Mechanical engineer Sonam Wangchuk, the inventor of the ice stupa, pictured here with the natural materials, like bushes, that he uses as catalysts to start the ice formation. Rolex/Stefan Walter
Ice stupas are an ingenious way of saving water in higher-altitude-regions. Support the cause here: http://icestupa.org/Watch his documentary for more detai...
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Ladakhi engineer Sonam Wangchuk and his team from the alternative school, Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL), built the Ice Stupa programme to solve growing water scarcity in the region and make communities self-reliant and engaged in water conservation. Over the years, Ladakh has witnessed a decrease in water ...
It took us one month to build an Ice Stupa approximately 7m (22 feet) in height, fed by the campus supply pipe which has its headwork roughly 15m above the spot. We would consider the experiment a success if the Ice Stupa lasted until the 1st of May to melt. We were delighted when, on May 1st, the Ice Stupa was still 3m high and still providing ...
Oct 29, 2021 · Sonam Wangchuk, who invented the ice stupa. Sonam Wangchuk/Flickr. Severe water shortages are a fundamental issue for the people who live in this cold desert. Their existence relies on the success ...
