Innovations: How Fog Harvesting Can Revive the Driest Places on Earth

From Technology News - The Washington Post:

For decades, scientists have been working with villagers inhabiting the driest place in the world to perfect a clever survival technique. Erected and stretched out along a test site within the parched, mountainous region of Coquimbo in central Chile are a series of mesh-patterned nets that have been fine-tuned to efficiently trap and condense tiny droplets that make up the dense coastal fog that sweeps across the fields. As the droplets accumulate, they form heavier drops that drip into containers that, over time, fill up with potable water.

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