Famed for Himalayan peaks and pristine lakes, Kashmir faces a water crisis amid dry weather

Srinagar, India (AP) – for several days, people in Himalayas in Kashmir Watch the torment while the famous old spring was dry in the extreme dry conditions. This was the first time in the living memory that the water of springs disappeared.

While the spring has returned to life on Friday, where it was renewed due to fresh rain and snowfall, the people of the region are now discussing something their fear for a long time – that climate change and changing weather patterns can soon affect the cashmere water bodies that sponsor their famous groves and vast agricultural fields.

The springs and multiple tables-including the main tributaries of the Gilum River in the area that is cut through the Indian Kashmir Valley, which has been controlled by the Indians, has caused a shortage of water in recent weeks throughout the area known as Himalayas and the virgin lakes.

Anxiety was highlighted by a video that went on social media this week showing an elderly woman praying and crying her heart in front of the old spring in the town of Achabal in southern Kashmir.

The spring, inside a famous garden built by the wife of the Mongol Emperor Jahangir in the seventeenth century, is a source of drinking water for 20 villages in the region.

“Oh! “Let the spring go back to life. Let the sacred flood overflow with water.”

The video raised the feelings across Kashmir, as many residents depend on the government’s water tankers.

Weather officials say the area has witnessed more than 80 % of the rain and snow deficit since the beginning of this year. Most of the small snow cashmere plains were received while the upper tributaries witnessed less than usual. For more than a month, the temperatures during the day have been between 5 to 8 degrees Celsius above the base.

The authorities launched an investigation into what caused Spring waters, according to the local news port on the Internet, quoting officials.

The crisis forced officials to temporarily cancel national winter games every year Tourist resort in Julmarag This includes the largest terrain of skiing in Asia. Thousands of local and international tourists usually visit skiing and removes an amazing third in the winter.

Experts say that the weather transformations in Kashmir are linked to climate change wider for global warming.

“It is a new matter now,” said Mukhtar Ahmed, head of the Kashmir office at the Indian Ministry of Airways. “The harsh weather events are very frequent here. In the past few years, we are witnessing the rudeness of the effects of global warming on this fragile environmental land.”

prime minister Omar AbdullahSenior officials in the region said that Kashmir is facing a water crisis this year. He said that the crisis “has been accumulating a few years ago” and that the government has declined to deal with the crisis.

Abdullah wrote in a post on the social media platform X on Wednesday: “While the government must build a more active approach to water management and its preservation, it cannot be merely an approach that focuses on the government.”

He said that the residents of the area “will have to change the way we take water as a Muslim.”

Weather monitoring agencies say that the land recorded them Heat year ever in 2024Bypassing the previous record in 2023, with a big jump so that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold.

Countries have set a goal to reduce global warming from pre -industry times to 1.5 degrees in 2015 Paris Climate Talks To avoid the worst consequences of climate change.

This is the first time in the recorded history that the planet was higher than the bound to warm up for a whole year. Scientists say whether the Earth remains above the long -term threshold, This means increasing deaths, Destruction, loss of species and sea level rise from the harsh weather that accompanies warming.