Chile’s glaciers are retreating and taking the nation’s water supply along with them. Conical water caches, known as “Ice Stupas”, due to their similarity in appearance to Buddhist shrines,  were created as a solution for the climate-induced drought conditions and increasing unreliability of water reserves in the Chilean mountains. This case study examines how a group of engineers- team Nilus- are working to establish these water preservation systems in Chile to tackle water use issues, preserve indigenous cultural practices, and slow down the rates of glacial melt happening in glacial areas.