Bali’s ancient rice fields are 'vanishing'—and locals are paying the price for a water crisis that shouldn't exist.

Bali’s 1,000-year-old subak irrigation system is under pressure as 6,500 hectares of rice fields vanished over the past five years. Urban growth and tourism expansion now force locals to buy water. These fields once acted as a giant natural water system, but development has changed how the island functions today.