Chile's Atacama desert turns to fog harvesting – A lifeline for some of the world’s driest cities
Scientists estimate fog nets could collect up to 10 liters of water per square meter daily during peak months.
Fog Harvesting Is Making It Possible To Get Water In One Of The Driest Places In The World: The Atacama Desert
One of the driest places in the world is Chile’s Atacama Desert. It receives less than a millimeter of rainfall […]
How morning fog could be vital water source in world’s driest desert
Learn how fog collection can help mitigate water shortage in Alto Hospicio, providing vital resources to underserved communities.
Fog harvesting could ease water shortages in the world’s driest places
Fog harvesting may provide a crucial water source for people living in some of the planet’s driest regions. By capturing moisture from passing fog, this technique gathers droplets and channels them into storage, potentially easing shortages for those who have little or no connection to traditional water infrastructures.
In the driest place on Earth, water hides in plain sight
Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as a proxy for Mars by researchers.
Fog harvesting could provide water for arid cities
Capturing water from fog - on a large scale - could provide some of the driest cities in the world with drinking water. This is what researchers in Chile have concluded after studying the potential of fog harvesting in the desert city of Alto Hospicio in the north of the country.
Even the Driest Desert Cities Can Harvest Fog Water: Study
It's not a one-stop solution to water shortages, but it could help supplement other harvesting and conservation methods.
Fog harvesting can solve water crisis in arid cities, says Chile scientists
Fog harvesting is a relatively simple process. Mesh panels are hung between poles, and as moisture-laden clouds pass through the mesh, water droplets form and are channelled into pipes and storage tan
Even desert cities could pull drinking water from the air
Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a yearlong Chilean desert experiment.
Scientists Work Out How To Extract Water From The Driest Hot Desert On Earth
Scientists have proposed an unlikely solution to water scarcity in one of the driest places on the planet: fog. By harvesting moisture from the air, they argue, we could provide vulnerable communities in Chile’s Atacama desert with much-needed water.
Scientists Want to Farm Fog to Solve the Water Crisis
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Droughts are getting worse. Is fog-farming a fix?
The city of Alto Hospicio, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is one of the driest places on Earth. And yet its population of 140,000 ...
Scientists Are Pulling Fresh Water From Fog – And It’s Changing Everything
Scientists in Chile are proving that even in the driest desert, water can be captured from the air. By setting up mesh ...