KHARNAK, India — For decades, Konchok Dorjey grazed the world’s finest cashmere-producing goats in the arid, treeless Kharnak village in India’s Ladakh region, a high mountainous cold desert that borders China and Pakistan. ___ Konchok Dorjey walks toward a room in his home where his daughter Rigzen Angmo reads in Kharnakling near Leh town in the cold desert region of …
Mismanagement rather than declining water resources is the main reason for the water crisis in Ladakh’s Leh town. “Locals have problems with using flush water toilets since they are used to the traditional dry compost toilets,” said Urgain Dolker, a local Ladakhi. Leh’s district panchayat officer Zakir Hussain said dry compost toilets were included in the Swachh Bharat programme as …
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