regional water scarcity is increasing

Take Ladakh, a high-altitude desert region in northern India.It sits in the rain shadow of the Himalayas and receives on average fewer than ten centimeters of rain per year.As local glaciers shrink because of climate change,regional water scarcity is increasing.And so, local people have started growing their own glaciers as insurance against this uncertainty.These glaciers come in two types: horizontal, and vertical.