Sustainable Mountain Development No. 56, ICIMOD, Winter 2009
Water Storage
A strategy for climate change
adaptation in the Himalayas
SUSTAINABLE MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT NO. 56 WINTER 2009
WATER STORAGE IN THE HIMALAYAS FOOD CRISIS CENTRE NEWS
The Himalayas – The Envi- Unplug
water storage under
ronmental
and go!
threat
Food Crisis
The Hindu Kush-Himalayan
in Asia
region has the most extensive

The water towers of the Hindu

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high altitude areas on Earth and
Kush-Himalayas, the Pamir, Tian
charging its electric vehicles
the largest areas covered by
Shan, and Kunlun...
from a solar charging station...
glaciers and permafrost...
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