ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 9月22日 13時33分

Welcome to Turpan: a parched depression, devoid of rivers, that gets an average of just over a half-inch of rainfall a year. But 2,000 years ago, the pastoralists who settled this inhospitable corner of China’s #Xinjiang region came up with a solution: karez, or a system of underground channels, some 15 miles long and 100 feet deep, that carry glacial snowmelt from the #TianshanMountains. The water helps sustain the region’s half-million residents and ensures that #Turpan’s family farms can grow the grapes that have shaped the city’s identity for centuries. Grape arbors grace nearly every home, and the rural landscape is dotted with imposing brick-and-mud drying towers (photographed here by @adamjdean), where grapes become raisins. But after millenniums of nourishing one of the world’s hottest locales, ancient water tunnels are drying up. Scientists say global warming has shrunk the glaciers that feed the elaborate irrigation system, but the more immediate threat comes from the oil drilling and industrial-scale agriculture that’s sucking the Turpan Basin dry.

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