As we are seeing with extremely powerful, extremely dangerous hurricanes like Hurricane Harvey in Houston and Hurricane Irma approaching Florida, its easy to understand how the changes in the climate and in our environments have become Engineering Grand Challenges, locally and abroad. As we have discussed in class, sometimes the ideas do not need to be complex. For example, in the Himalayan mountains, engineers and monks have devised a way of building our own Artificial Ice Glaciers. Taking weeks to build but months to melt back into water, these glaciers are able to help relocate sources of water to rugged, mountainous areas where the lack of reliable water supplies limits food production or become impossible to provide people and animals with safe, drinkable water.
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