One of the driest places in the world is Chile’s Atacama Desert. It receives less than a millimeter of rainfall […]

As cities grow, so does their demand for water, often surpassing the capacity of traditional sources. Many fast-expanding urban areas in dry regions struggle to supply their residents with enough clean water.

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.

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.

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.

With less annual rainfall than 1 mm per year, Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. The main water source of cities in the region are underground rock layers that contain water-filled pore spaces which last recharged between 17,

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

SOUTH-EAST ASIA (dpa): Harvesting fog could ease water scarcity in the world's driest place, a new study has suggested. In Chile's Atacama Desert, with less annual rainfall than 1 millimetre per year, the main water source is underground water-filled spaces which last recharged between 17,000 and 10,000 years ago.

It's not a one-stop solution to water shortages, but it could help supplement other harvesting and conservation methods.

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.

In a nutshell Scientists discovered that fog collection could provide up to 10 liters of water per square meter daily in areas surrounding Alto Hospicio, Chile, enough to help supply the city’s 10,000 informal settlement residents who currently rely on water truck deliveries.