与此同时，中国的瓶装水行业（世界最大）从已经饱受巨大压力的喜马拉雅山冰川吸取 “优质饮用水 ” ， 特别是喜马拉雅山东麓的冰川，那里的雪和冰盖融化加速清晰可辨。
Meanwhile, China’s bottled-water industry – the world’s largest – is siphoning “premium drinking water” from the Himalayas’ already-stressed glaciers, particularly those in the eastern Himalayas, where accelerated melting of snow and ice fields is already conspicuous. Unsurprisingly, this is causing biodiversity loss and impairment of ecosystem services.