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 ...
One of the driest places in the world is Chile’s Atacama Desert. It receives less than a millimeter of rainfall […] ...
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 ...
But Alto Hospicio, like so many other coastal cities, is rich in an untapped water resource: fog. New research finds that by deploying fog collectors — fine mesh stretched between two poles ...
Now, local researchers have assessed if "fog harvesting," a method where fog water is collected and saved, is a feasible way to provide the residents of informal settlements with much needed water.