In a small Himalayan village in the northern Indian district of Pithoragarh, I came face-to-face with one of the quietest yet most alarming consequences of climate change.

It was late afternoon in April 2015, and the hills were bathed in soft light. Yet there was a strange stillness in the village. The springs that once bubbled with life had gradually dwindled to a trickle. Women were lining up with water containers, waiting. Children trudged beside them, some barely eight years old, carrying jars heavier than their school bags. They were going to fetch water from the few springs still flowing, much further from their homes. One girl told me she used to play with her friends after school, “but now we carry water.”

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