For days, people in the Himalayan region of Kashmir watched in agony as a famed ancient spring ran dry amid extreme dry weather conditions. It was the first time in living memory that the spring water had vanished.
While the spring returned to life on Friday, replenished by fresh rain and snowfall, the region's people are now discussing something they had long feared — that climate change and changing weather patterns could soon take a toll on Kashmir’s water bodies that nurture its famed orchards and vast agricultural fields.
