White Knight (2012)

Directed by

Aarti Shrivastava

Genre

documentary film

Country

India

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly engineer in Ladakh, India invents a way to build artificial glaciers. The documentary shows how his simple technology helps a region facing water shortages from climate change.

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What happens

White Knight is an Indian documentary film directed by Aarti Shrivastava. The subject is Chewang Norphel, a 78-year-old engineer in Leh, Ladakh, who, over the last 15 years, has invented and implemented a technology that is helping provide a solution to an ecological disaster created by climate change. The film documents how Ladakh is grappling with an alarming water scarcity situation. In this high altitude desert where the melting of glaciers has been the traditional source of fresh water, a warmer planet is playing havoc with lifestyles and the ecology. With glaciers melting faster, fresh water is precious. Norphel's solution uses common sense and elementary observational science to create artificial glaciers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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