People use homemade ice cubes as a source of drinking water and irrigated crops

No one knows how historically accurate that particular story is,but remarkably, it draws on fact:For centuries, in the Karakoram and Himalayan mountain ranges,people have been growing glaciers and using these homemade bodies of ice as sources of drinking water and irrigation for their crops.But before we get to that fascinating phenomenon,it's important to understand the difference between glaciers that grow in the wild,and those that humans create.