Noticed severe spring agricultural water scarcity in Ladakh due to delayed glacial melt; engineered artificial glaciers using gravity-fed check dams, ensuring irrigation water for thousands of mountain farmers.
Simple civil engineering aligned with nature yields miraculous solutions.
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