Fog harvest can be supplied to the most dry cities.

Capturing water from the fog can be a large scale to provide the world’s most dry cities as drinking water.

This concluded after researchers in Chile studied the potential of fog harvest in the North Desert City Alto Hospicio.

The average rainfall in this area is less than 0.19in (5 mm) per year.

Dr. Virginia Carter Gamberini in the UNIVERSIDAD market said, “There are also many social problems in this city. “Poverty, drugs, many slums.”

The slums who can’t access the water supply network depend on the drinking water that is delivered to the truck.

But regularly gathered in Mountain City is an unknown source, researchers say.

Capturing the fog is surprisingly simple. When the mesh is hanging between the poles, when the clouds full of moisture are formed, the fine mesh, drops are formed. Then tie the water into a channel with a pipe and a storage tank.

It has been used for decades, mainly in South America and Central America. One of the largest misty harvesting systems It is located in Morocco at the edge of the Sahara Desert.

However, DR Carter says that the “new era” of fog harvests, which is much larger, can provide safer and sustainable water supply in the most needed urban environment.

She and her colleagues evaluated how much water can be produced through the fog harvest, combining the information with the study of cloud formation of satellite images and weather forecasts.

From this, they concluded that the clouds that regularly form the Pacific and flew across the coastal mountain cities can provide sustainable drinking sources to slums in Altohospio. They announced their discovery A paper in the Frontier Journal of Environmental Sciences.

Altohospio’s fog is formed in the Pacific Ocean. When warm and humid air flows over cold water, it flies over the mountain. Here, due to the foggy conditions, Dr. Carter and his colleagues have found areas where the most water can be harvested in the clouds regularly.

Based on the annual average water collection speed of 2.5 liters per mesh per square meter per day, researchers solved the following:

• The 17,000 square meter mesh can produce enough water to meet the 300,000 liters of weekly water demand, which is now delivered to the urban slums.
• 110 square meters can meet the annual demand for the green irrigation of the city.
• Fog water can be used for (hydroponic) agricultural agricultural agricultural agricultural agriculture and 33 ~ 44LB (15 ~ 20kg) of green vegetables per month

Alto Hospicio is on the edge of the Atacama Desert, one of the most dry places on Earth. With little precipitation, the main water resources source of this area is an underground leaf, which includes a space filled with the last filled water thousands of years ago.

Due to the increase in urban population and the demand for water supply due to mining and industry, scientists say that other sustainable clean water sources are urgently needed.

Dr. Gamberini explained that Chile is “very special about the sea fog” because Chile has a sea and a mountain along the country.

Her team is currently studying “fog harvest maps” all over the country.

As Dr. Carter described, “Water from the clouds” said, “It can improve the elasticity of our city to climate change while improving access to clean water.”