Use of artificial glaciers to combat climate change 

A team of Chilean members, including geologists, glaciologists, hydraulic engineers, and computer scientists, have just created artificial glaciers with the aim of reserving precipitated winter water in order to distribute it in the spring and summer months, when the shortage of this resource is markedly accentuated.

Due to climate change, natural glaciers are disappearing and the window of the rainy months, which is already quite short, is rapidly diminishing. The Chileans baptized this feat as Project Nilus which is Inspired by the ice-stupas (ice stupas) that were designed and manufactured by the Indian Soanm Wancchuk in the Himalayas that rise in India, near the border with Mongolia which for example, it provides shelter to farmers during the spring season in Ladakh, a high-altitude desert region on the edge of the Himalayas.

How they have achieved this project, through a freshwater catchment, which is channeled down a slope to the dome-shaped structures. Then, thanks to the difference in heights, the water is lifted and sprayed outwards -when the temperature is below zero-, causing the creation of an ice or ice stupa, which could reach a height of 40 meters, which means it can store between 12.5 and 16 million liters of water. When this water begins to melt, it is periodically channeled to established distribution points, helping to deliver fresh water to people who do not have access to it.

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