The considerable Shisper glacier, the people of the village of Hasnabad in Pakistan, are spending every day in the shadow of fear. The glacier may be moving towards them at a rate of about four meters every day due to climate change, where most of the glaciers around the world are shrinking. At the same time, this glacier located in the Karakoram mountain range of northern Pakistan, due to which hundreds of tons of snow and debris are coming down ten times faster than the regular rate. Due to which the people of this village and their homes threatened.
According to villagers, their lives, their properties, and animals are in danger. The floods caused by glacier lakes, snow and rockfall, and the lack of clean and accessible water are putting the lives of the people living in its path in grave danger. United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Pakistan’s Ignace Arta said, when a glacier lake explodes, it not only brings ice, water, and debris along with it but also a lot of mud falls. It has a devastating effect. It destroys everything that comes in its way.
Indus flow is dependent on the melting of ice
He said that the flow of the Indus is dependent on the melting of ice, and the change in the glaciers of Pakistan affects it. It has an impact not only on the people living in its basin but on the entire nation, which depends on its water for its food. According to the World Resource Institute, the change in the water level will also affect the relationship between Pakistan and India as both countries need the Indus and its tributaries.
Karakoram has some of the highest mountain peaks in the world, including K2. It also called the third pole because it has the most upper snow after the Arctic and Antarctica. After leaving Tibet, the Indus flows through India and Pakistan. Many tributaries join it before reaching the Arabian Sea. According to United Nations estimates, 90 percent of Pakistan’s farming is dependent on the water of this river. Experts have warned of water scarcity in Pakistan by 2025. In which the melting of Himalayan glaciers is an important reason. Scientists, however, have not yet ascertained how the glaciers are rising in the Karakoram.
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