Kashmir Faces Deepening Precipitation Deficit as Government Activates Climate Adaptation Plan By: Javid Amin | 12 February 2026 20 Agriculture Measures and 15 Water Actions Proposed After Two Years of Snowfall Shortfall A Winter That Didn’t Come — Twice In Kashmir, winter is infrastructure. It fills rivers without pumps. It stores water without reservoirs. It irrigates orchards without pipelines. Snow is the valley’s oldest engineering system — and for two consecutive years, that system has failed to recharge. Across the higher catchments feeding the Kashmir Division, snowfall has remained persistently…
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