I had this as an idea in an engineering sustainability project in my undergrad. I proposed it for a location with a similar climate for poor and isolated communities struggling with water supplies. My assignment was marked down heavily, because the core tenet of droplet catchment from fog via mesh was 'unheard of and unlikely to work'. Despite it being used in survival situations for decades. Our lead assessor was an architect major btw and refused to argue further on the actual merits of the chemistry / design involved. The assignments marked favourably were ones solar panel installations backed up by generators, dam construction and periodic water delivery logistics in the dry periods, which far exceed the original budget. This video has renewed my anger at that marker! Anyway, I am happy this simple technology is becoming accessible to rural communities.
Not sure how long ago when you were an undergrad, but I saw this on a TV programm about this at least 20 years ago, and pretty sure it was in Peru. Shows you that your marker was either ignorant or dumb.
@@NANA-kf1cs yes. Its hard for people to not think its too good to be true. I work with a product that could change the world. Its used to help soil structure and can cut water use by up to 50%. So we could let you grow things with less water and less fertilizer. Some day people will be amazed at what can be done. 👍
It was a Peruvian who started this. Europeans only helped with money. Local technician built the structures, designed the systems and installed the mesh.
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I'm from Lima, I had no knowledge of this project and it is fantastic. It was very creative to use the fog of those places. A large part of Lima is covered with fog especially in this season. I am really grateful for all the help they gave to these people and their families. They do a better job than our government.
But, we are supposed to be buying it from corporations who are draining it from certain regions, and our local well water tested too high in arsenic to drink. Rural Oregon. Bless the beautiful minds and capable hands hat brought this invention into fruition!
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I used to hike in the forests of Northern California and while it rarely rained in the usual sense. Every single morning the coastal fog would blow through the conifer trees and they would make their own rain every single day. It is amazing how the water pours from the tree tops onto the fertile ground below. I had never known this about trees but it makes it very easy to understand how the Fog Nets could provide so much water on a regular basis.
It wood make sense for them to restore nature by growing forests which should restore the cycle. My marine biologist friend had mentioned about this system but it wasn't making sense because he was explaining the origin which is from some lizard 🦎 which gets its water the same way, so kinda creepy how the algorithms found me
@@kathleennorton6108 Water 💦 boyyyy lol 😂 what's funny is just a few hours ago I was thinking about changing the name coz I feel bad, there's a pool supplies company called Water Baqua and I'm sitting here on their name
I always love how inventive and adaptive people are. We give ourselves a lot of justified grief for much of our behavior but we really are an incredible species.
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It looks good in these videos, but I'd be very surprised these actually work well enough to provide any consistent water to the locals whatsoever. These types of ideas and videos have been going around for a long time, and they are chalked full of propaganda and provide very little in the lines of actual experimental data collected. They can say 10,000 litres all day long, but I encourage you to actually drive or hike to one of these areas and see them in action. I think you will be quite disappointed by the lack of potable water actually collected in bins. I have a friend out west who tried something similar. Yes they will sometimes be wet in the middle of the night, but they hold most of that moisture like a sponge. They also look like crap across the landscape, and the high winds can easily destroy days worth of work. Buy hey, I'm still hopeful we'll be able to see a reliable scientific video which gives actual results and testimony at some point in our lifetime.
@@Rick-the-Swift it's a scam. there is maybe 0.000001% of area where the climate allows this to work. plenty of credible videos on youtube debunking this.
It's essentially distilled water plus whatever dust was in the air. Simple mechanical filtration to remove dust + carbon filtration to pull out any chemical pollutants should suffice. Chlorine/iodine should be unnecessary as there's no biological contamination. Even without any filtration it should be drinkable, since they're literally breathing the same pollutants/dust/bacteria/spores and our stomachs are less sensitive than our lungs.
@@barnabyvonrudal1 No, not all deserts. I live in the Sonoran desert and fog is rare unless it's the day after a heavy rain. Moisture will come in, during the evening in the air and you can feel the cool sensation but it's not at a point that it would catch and condense heavily in nets like this. I believe there are some ways in a survival situation using a plastic lined in a small hole dug but it's been so long since I have seen talks about it.
@@barnabyvonrudal1 No only on places near costal areas, if it's on higher ground it's even better. This's not new tech by any standard the video made it look like a dutch invention or something.
Did you know that trees perform that job naturally, but it is transferred to the ground water table and streams. A lot of places have the water problems because they cut down all the trees and paved the ground = no water.
And the prairies are turning to dust because of the destruction of the grazing animals. They're also needed to rebuild the soil structure and spread seed.
MIght be true. Yet a healthy forest needs at least a generation or more to grow. So in the meantime this is a good way to provide men and plants with water
@@elha7982 you dont need a forest. You need some hardy plants that grow fast and you follow those with water retaining plants and the water will return very quickly. Projects are bringing water back in less than 5 years. There are well documented processes and the results are very fast. And the system then automates itself. Once the plants are in place and collecting water it is only a matter of time before the plants saturate the ground with moisture. But these areas are dry, so catching water to give to the plants is a good start, but they need to grow non crop plants with the water to bring water back for the crops. If they just grow straight crops they will continue the removal of water from the system.
How clever is that, I am always amazed by the simple solutions that some people come up with to solve a problem and provide a solution that enhances life for people. Well done, such a credit to the creator.
I think that the nets are not properly cleaned well enough. Introducing grit and desert soil into the drinking water. This is why I will not donate to help.
It's fascinating how fog forms in deserts. I grew up in Las Vegas and never saw fog until I moved to Colorado. I wonder if the crop growing can lead to a change in climate over time or if the amount of water needed is impossible.
Plants depend more on the climate than the opposite. There are forests where it rains. There are deserts where its dry. The desert in that region is due to the altitude of the Andes. Almost no humidity reaches the land. Warm and humid air from the pacific ocean rains by the coast line because, as air is forced into the high land, it gets colder and water precipitates. What may happen is that, of they grow plants using fog water, once they are grown enough they can start acting as natural fog catchers. Thus, a self-sustained vegetation could be grown there. (And I might be totally wrong, but that is a possibility that I just imagined).
Curious about this as well. Is there anything they can plant that can be used to kick start a change. I feel like if there was some foliage then this process would happen naturally. It seems strange to me that an area that receives that kind of fog would be a desert.
The cool part of this is that it mimics nature. The Namib Desert Beetle survives in these dry climates by climbing to high points and catching the fog on its body, which roll in a water droplet down its wings to its mouth, providing water for life.
I'm very impressed with this project . I think that something similar was set up in Africa 's west coast , on the coastal area , to harvest water and also to try and help green this coastal region of the Sahara .
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@@lastofthebest5102 There are many types of plastic. Some of them may well be quite safe. I doubt if we will ever stop using plastics, but some types may be deadly. As always, knowledge and discrimination are required as we are stuck with plastic for many years to come.
This was a South African design many years back. I was fortunate enough to have visited Peru. Beautiful country with lovely people. Still my top 3 destinations just because of the people.
This is technology at its simplest that has a high yield benefit compared to the necessary input. The benefit to the local population is great and will improve their daily lives immeasurably. This proves that low tech still has its place in the world.
@@fredgillespie5855 No, or little, monetary profit, but plenty of benefits: fewer people in poverty struggling to live, which correlates to less crime and less money spent policing; limiting desertification, which must be done for survival; many studies show that those who benefit from initiatives like this have a higher predisposition to contribute to society, which often means less poverty and less crime. However, those are public and long-term benefits, and unfortunately, fewer people are motivated by those types of benefits.
@@Isaic02 - I absolutely agree with you on all that, I was simply explaining why the big boys are not interested in such solutions - that puts power in the hands of the people rather than in the hands of corporations.
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this is trully wholesome, I love the fact that we humans learn to use our knowledge to help others in a way that even we barely spend money, it will be still helpful for people who are in needs
@@goldpotato1885 it took this long for human ingenuity (and their free wills, Christians) to overcome God creating a water shortages in many places, causing countless deaths in Africa for example. So I think it's right to say "Satan bless them" for defeating God's plan for dehydrating the masses.
I can fix that. Let me make you unhappy. The system worked for a decade in the 1990s. It failed and no longer works. Since 2003, there are no fog collection nets, and they're just trucking water and pouring it down the pipes. At least those still works. Burried pipes can last a long time. Heck, the pvc pipes I nailed to the side of my house, exposed to rain and sun everyday, is still fine 2 decades later.
I really like this channel because it promotes life. People coming together with solutions to tackle drought and unclean drinking water...the work of real heroes
While it's a great temporary solution, that is unfortunately the problem. In the long term it causes the landscape to be drier. Hence the reason why such devices are commonly considered illegal in various US states. It takes water from the ecosystem meaning it wouldn't be deposited through the land and replenish aquifers. If this is a coastal area, then removing water that would've been part of aquifer means the ground eventually soaks in sea water vs the balance with fresh water.
@@Omenslol Thank you.. was getting annoyed how everyone just sees intimidate benefit and ignores the well known, decade long study's of the issues this will cause.. That said, if i had to approve between this or Weather Modification.... this is way better... but as the saying go "Robbing Peter to pay Paul"
@@dondutch4107 The Chinese released a bunch of metal particles in the air to attract the smog to have clear skies on one day of their holidays. I have no idea what the side effects could be from the metal but hey atleast they had clear skies for a day! Is there any other weather modifiers you've heard of? Because that's the only 1 I have heard of.
wait till you find out about trees! - you will be amazed!! - I am not joking, btw. - trees do amazing things to the environment. water soil and air - all depends on plants & animals
One of the most fascinating clips I have seen in a long while. I live on an island off the Texas Coadt where must pay a minimum of $80.00 per month for water because it must be purchased and piped in from Houston. We certainly have a good supply of fog and this fog catcher thing might be cheaper than desalination plants. But we also have a good deal of air pollution when the air is out of the north, which is pretty rare I would think.
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was payin 75month in pennsy. moved to phillipines. my bill last month was 273pesos.less than 6bucks.of course we have a series of filtration systems for potable water. the water is chlorinated & my qualitative tests say its ok. i still make sure it goes thru a series of filters including, UV, reverse osmosis, hydrogenation, & alkalization.
@@JosefMengeleNHS if a guy doesnt believe in himself to get thru life hes gotta believe in somethin...like the 🐦 in the bush cause his hands, like his head🥴, are empty😕
I would still add a filter at the bottom of the tank. The change of microplastics from the polypropylene is a concern. Micro plastics are a know endocrine disrupter and can upset the human hormonal system and are a possible carcinogen.
Ummmm, it is filtered. He states around 2:42 that it is a passive process and doesn't require any energy other than the FILTRATION for the whole process of supplying drinking water to the people. This is not a quote but a generalized summary of what he said about the energy needs if any.
I believe the program announcer said the nets were made of polypropylene, not micro plastics. At any rate it's good to see people doing something constructive with their environment. Trying to help rather than destroy.👵❣
@@barbdouglas3197 Micro plastics are just very very tiny pieces of plastic, polypropylene is a plastic. If microscopic pieces of it break off into the water then you'll have micro plastics in the water. The water is filtered though, so hopefully the filter is good enough to take out any potential micro plastics from the nets.
@@dwerg1 Thank you. I'm not a chemical engineer, so that stuff can get right past me. I don't ever drink anything out of plastic of any kind anyway. So I hope no one else does either. Plastic baby bottles really ticked me off!!👵😇
I read about this method of farming water from clouds in the mountains, and It was ingenious back than. Its one of those discoveries that changes the lives of all those in the area.
It would be so cool to see local tinkerers and techies from Uruguay or even Lima to try making it more efficient without using any or little power. Every drop counts
I saw this years ago in a documentary and I always wondered why this could not be used in places that always suffer from drought. The mountainous hills just outside San Francisco would be an ideal location since it's always foggy.
The first issue is, people in San Francisco don't need to use it when they don't have a drought. The second issue would be collecting enough water from nets to provide for everyone in the area for their everyday lives or at least subsidize enough during droughts. And lastly the other issue would be is transporting that water - what methods would be used (pipelines, by vehicle, etc)? Oh, and if we managed to collect most of that water from the fog, then plants in the area would suffer as a result of us taking it. In my opinion, I don't know the area well enough, but if they are close to the ocean, I don't understand why there isn't a filtration system. Even just a simple one in order to use for farming/irrigating land. Of course it is easier said than done. But if they have been living like this for decades, I'd imagine they could have set up some kind of method by now.
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This is very much evident of how Mother Nature provides for humanity no matter where you are or on what condition you live in. All you have to do is utilize the nature wisely to your cause.
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@@kissit012 by logic creation implies there is a creator. And the fact that humans hold the concept of an Ideal: a perfect standard, especially considering nothing in this world shows evidence of perfection to even cause the Mind to create the concept in the first place - is enough for me to know there's a Creator. More farfetched and illogical to believe creation that has form, function and design just happened randomly. Right 😒
This is awesome. Every inch of land should be utilized to get as much water as possible. also it would be nice if they dig narrow trenches to collect any rainwater if it rains. Please check the PAANI project that was successful in India in drought ridden villages. they just made trenches and ponds to collect and gather every possible drop of rain water however little it was and within one seasonal rainfall the ponds and trenches were over flowing with water. These places are now thriving.
when there is so much moisture to form fog there could be clouds too just that right now there is nothing to hold the clouds. maybe in a decade or so if they successfully plant a lot trees this very moisture can turn into rain. it may not rain now for this generation but if people are persistent in 20 years their kids and grandkids might enjoy a forest and rains. even the driest places do receive some rain even if it is once in a couple of years. keeping the trenches and ponds ready to be filled can come in handy. I just pray and hope they enjoy clean drinking water.
I get water droplets on my tent in the morning everytime I go camp even in drier places. Sometimes wet enough that the dirt on the sides of the tent gets visibly wet from the dripping water. Never thought of drinking them, as I already have unlimited water supply nearby: the river. Guess I was too ignorant to notice this incredible technique!
This also highlights the reason why this fog catchers is a rather silly idea. If you have enough moisture in the air that there's enough fog to catch , you're probably not in a water scarce area. If you're in a really arid area, all you'll be catching is wind.
@@yvrelna oh, my science teacher once said wind can carry water from the sea or any other open water to far enough places that has very dry climate and scarce underground water. But how do I know, I didn't live in that place. If it's cheaper to get water that way (despite the lack of minerals in it), then it works for them, I think.
@@yvrelna The idea works and it works really well in this particular type of area. Maybe it's just that you aren't smart enough to realize it. Unlike Dimas' case. Peru is a desert on a mountain bordered by sea. Yes, the place is clearly not water scarce but they're all salt water. Can't find a river either because even they have one around, it's still a trip up and down a mountain which probably not an energy efficient choice. This water net thing turns moisture in the sea into drinkable waters without the need of a desalination plant. If this idea is silly then I don't know what isn't.
There's a reason sheep never drink from flowing water. I am sure you know this, but be careful with that. Just takes one dead donkey up the river and you're fucked.
@@minimushrom that's why you should boil your water no matter how clean you think the water is. I have portable water filtration ready on my backpack too when I'm in the woods.
This is fascinating. The idea of getting clean fresh water from the air. Turning arid land into arable. Though the natural habitat would depend on that water as would the fog pattern itself for the constant repetition of moisture to be available. Tides and wind patterns of the ocean are certainly the resource of this phenomenon and are proving quite inconsistent with the changing weather and jet stream patterns occurring with ever greater frequency as the planet experiences warming. Though this is a wonderful step forward it would be very wise to make sure the trucks that bring the water now are, at least in some measure, kept in business, good repair and available for shortages that are bound to occur as weather patterns shift.
I 'member reading about these in the mid-80s: it was an interesting article. I'm glad to hear about it again so many years later. (In the article the innovators were called "Cloud-Nuts". But, it worked!)
@@DogSerious Deserts are only partly dry. Stuff like this is centuries old just with modern materials. Another old way was to piss in one spot and have a tent shape over the hole and as it evaporates over the day the water collects on the material above and drips down into a container. (Also works to just dig down to some moist soil or something like cactus)
@@SilvaDreams If deserts were only partly dry then they would have much more foliage. You would need acres of land covered in nets just to make a mouthful. Also, study the cactus and see why it's the only plant basically to survive in deserts, there's no moisture there, and certainly not in amounts fit for humans!
There's a beetle (called the desert beetle), does this in a similar way the fog catchers do. Maybe inspired from them? Which I remember they've talked about how to replicate the beetles ability to catch water on it's back in early morning a while long ago. Now they've finally put it into action.
Plants breath (transpire). You can take a clear plastic bag and wrap a plant and tie it off at the base of the foliage along the stem and return to water later. They make collectors for these but it’s more of a survival tool for a limited amount of water.
If there's enough water, theymust start little forest systems so as to increase greenery and cut desertification by increasing humidity and ultimately rainfall.. this too depends if the region gets fall too😕
There are plenty of varieties of desert grass that will survive in that environment. The grasses can be used to stop soil erosion regulate temp. trap moisture in the soil and fill aquifers. Putting up these nets seems like a good start to providing drinking water but unless the land is properly managed there will always be problems.
Just wondering if this has negative impacts on the vegetation in the area. Desert fog is vital for desert plants and the plants are vital for wildlife. Definitely seems like a better idea than pumping aquifers.
This is ingenious !! I so love this I'm so glad that they can grow their own food and have drinking water bathing water whatever they need water for I'm so Happy for them 💛🙏😊💙
These nets look like they are made of cheap plastic, which would degrade fast because of the Sun's UV rays. I hope I am wrong, otherwise these people could end up ingesting a ton of micro plastic particles.
@@drak0an What materials do you suggest? We need to stop putting folks down for trying to help themselves. If you see a problem with this, offer up a solution
The key is to plant more trees. It's likely that this place, with this much moisture, had vegetation and trees in the past, but overgrazing destroyed it. With more trees, you get even more fog, and ultimately you'll have rain, then springs.
Grazing animals improve the soil greatly you'd start with capturing enough water that grasses can grow and add animals slowly, so as the soil improves and more grasses can grow, more animals can feed and improve the soil faster still...
@@losfromla1480 to improve soil with grazing you need to enclose them and move them around, it's a LOT of work. If you let grazing animals roam free; you've destroyed everything, they will kill all grasses and young trees. Since there's just trees so far and no grass at all, it's not possible. IMO they first need a lot of trees acting as their fog nets, I'm sure there's a native species with foliage that'll act in the same way, capturing fog droplets.
@@nicolasbertin8552 yeah, you'd need a good amount of grasses first. Native, hardy species. Without grasses around the trees, you'd lose far too much water to evaporation. At least that's the case here in California, mulching reduces the use of water by keeping evaporation to a minimum. So I suppose they could plant trees and mulch heavily.
This is a neat technology. I do have questions. Does it actually work as well as shown on the video? How long do the nets last? Wind is a very corrosive force.
Also, is the water contaminated with micro-plastics from the plastic nets as they break down? (they will break down due to sunlight, as well as the wind like you mentioned)
@@winstonsmith8482 its one of the safer plastics and even has some acid resistances to prevent from breaking down and regardless the water is still filtered if used for drinking the nets do have to be cleaned regularly tho as mold will eventually form
@@Johnnyreengo I wasn't disagreeing with you, I doubt that there is enough fog to even get water from. I'm getting some scam vibes from the whole situation.
saw a story on this nearly 40 years ago. Given the stat about how many are still without drinking water, would be curious how well this has really performed and why not more wide spread after all this time.
I suspect it wasn't applied because people weren't desperate enough to employ it. Now with global warming, evaporated water goes above our cloud cover so we have no rain - this technology MUST be employed!
Simple yet effective and life saving. Does air quality effect the water from the fog droplet? I over heard them say something about filtering the collected water. Is it potable unfiltered? If anyone has answers after reading this that would be cool. Thanks
Not 100% sure, but vehicle particulates are less likely in rural areas, and carbon dioxide etc won't be an issue. Given it's a sandy desert, sand grit might be an issue, but will likely settle out too. I'd guess it's largely equivalent to distilled water, but I'm not an expert
Measuring particulate fallout used to be my job. Yes, plenty of material in apparently clean air. Dust from the ground to bugs (and parts of bugs). There is likely the issue of algae/moss growth on the sheets that may or may not be toxic.
@@PhilJonesIII given the desert air I'd be more worried about the collection trough or tank, as the mesh likely dries out during the day. Fog isn't going to be an all day event in most cases. Maybe more a concern during any rainy season they have tho?
@@michaelsorensen7567 it is a property of water vapour that it will condense on dust particles first. The sheets will also accumulate particulates, even when dry. The quantities are quite likely small and filtration likely before going into those big tanks. This would avoid accumulation of sediment over time.
@@PhilJonesIII I see now that last comment of mine wasn't specific enough, it was meant to solely address the algae issue, sorry for my lack of clarity. You're right about the dust and potential sediment accumulation though.
This is the same process that has been used for millions of years by the giant sequoias of the Pacific coastal mountains, stretching from California to British Columbia.
I saw a similar idea but with plants on some island. The indigenous plants had been cleared for grazing from the hill tops which wiped out the islands water supply, so now they have replanted the hills and added catchment systems to direct this total dependent water resource. On a side note the amount of human settlements which wiped themselves out due to deforestation is stupendous... but still we wont learn.
I have always thought that the Horn of Africa was once heavily forested, pumping water into the moist ocean air which produced rain in the area that is now the Sahara Desert. Don't know if that's true...but there did use to be lakes and rivers where there is now an ocean of sand. -Veteran '66-68
@@rogeranderson8763 Yes, so many forests wiped out for industry without the thought that they can be replanted throughout our history. Take the Babylonians, Aztecs, English and so on and we still don't learn that forests are regions weather regulators... and that is just dumb.
That looks cool as long as the whole structure is brand-new, but how would you solve the problem of mold, mildew, and bacteria? Stagnant and slowly collecting waters are notorious for building up natural contaminants.
I would think once the fog dissipates and the heat of the sun gets on those collectors very little mould and mildew would survive. Just my opinion though.
Various reasons. Some of them are old laws from Gold Rush-era battles over water rights, some jurisdictions view it as a threat to tax revenue or control over natural resources.
It's Suppressed. Lucifarian agenda doesn't support it.. it would require replanting also to hold the water permanently, exposed forests suffer water loss. They are chopping Dow the last of the old forests while peddling climate change and eco protection. Both of which is utter twaddle.
Put it this way a 15/1 year. Old invented a ocean garbage collection boat which sails around and skims all the rubbish out cleaning up the garbage patch. Instead all we got was a voge magazine. How dare you kid scripted by the globalists. Crickets for the true hero.
Micro Plastics are a non issue. You just shit them out! And, how come plastics degrade down to micro plastics and not go all the way to nothing. There are bacteria that love plastic. Micro Plastics are a fallacy, just like Climate Change.
I'd like to know what the cost/durability of these nets are? It seems like they would need to be replaced pretty regularly which could be a problem for an impoverished community if the funding for this project ever dries up
I had this as an idea in an engineering sustainability project in my undergrad. I proposed it for a location with a similar climate for poor and isolated communities struggling with water supplies. My assignment was marked down heavily, because the core tenet of droplet catchment from fog via mesh was 'unheard of and unlikely to work'. Despite it being used in survival situations for decades. Our lead assessor was an architect major btw and refused to argue further on the actual merits of the chemistry / design involved. The assignments marked favourably were ones solar panel installations backed up by generators, dam construction and periodic water delivery logistics in the dry periods, which far exceed the original budget. This video has renewed my anger at that marker! Anyway, I am happy this simple technology is becoming accessible to rural communities.
Not sure how long ago when you were an undergrad, but I saw this on a TV programm about this at least 20 years ago, and pretty sure it was in Peru. Shows you that your marker was either ignorant or dumb.
People in general are too quick to dismiss new and innovative ideas.
@@NANA-kf1cs yes. Its hard for people to not think its too good to be true. I work with a product that could change the world. Its used to help soil structure and can cut water use by up to 50%. So we could let you grow things with less water and less fertilizer. Some day people will be amazed at what can be done. 👍
Frustrating. What was his name? Try find him and forward this😂👍
They have been used in coastal Chile for years.
Fog catchers, rainwater harvesting, digging wells and adding to them rather than taking away, turning desert into fertile land is a noble way to live
Leaching ponds help replenish ground water. There is is a video by Andrew Millison about the topic of water infrastructure and permaculture in india.
Amazing
do it then
That must be why the website is up for sale! 🤣
Nobleman Prince Andrew should donate £12,000,000 as top family of the noble Church of England
Thanks to who ever is involved in doing this for them.
It was a Peruvian who started this. Europeans only helped with money. Local technician built the structures, designed the systems and installed the mesh.
It was me. All of it. Me. You're welcome.
That was nice of them until the mold and bacteria build up in those tanks and everyone is sick!
@@SwErTiN777 They filter the water they drink, while the unfiltered goes to plants.
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I'm from Lima, I had no knowledge of this project and it is fantastic. It was very creative to use the fog of those places. A large part of Lima is covered with fog especially in this season. I am really grateful for all the help they gave to these people and their families. They do a better job than our government.
It should work on clouds too. But you might need to be near mountains to get it to them. Or higher level conutry
Cuando ha hecho mejir trabajo en algo el gobuerno…. Pocas pocas veces. Muy bien invento.
Consulta el sistema. Se usa en las islas Canarias desde...
May this and similar ideas never be lost and be available to all who need it.
But, we are supposed to be buying it from corporations who are draining it from certain regions, and our local well water tested too high in arsenic to drink. Rural Oregon. Bless the beautiful minds and capable hands hat brought this invention into fruition!
@@alaysiakayebutler6299 Boycott corporations and their greed.
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@@williammunny9916 Not sure what that's got to do with anything but if it makes you happy :-)
@@lizczepiel7254 it cant be that baaaaaaaaaad
I used to hike in the forests of Northern California and while it rarely rained in the usual sense. Every single morning the coastal fog would blow through the conifer trees and they would make their own rain every single day. It is amazing how the water pours from the tree tops onto the fertile ground below. I had never known this about trees but it makes it very easy to understand how the Fog Nets could provide so much water on a regular basis.
The Redwoods are too tall to get water to their tops, due to gravity. They thrive on the water in the air.
It wood make sense for them to restore nature by growing forests which should restore the cycle. My marine biologist friend had mentioned about this system but it wasn't making sense because he was explaining the origin which is from some lizard 🦎 which gets its water the same way, so kinda creepy how the algorithms found me
Ok I agree but I’ve lived in Nor Cal my whole life and “rarely rained” would not be how I describe it lol
@@waterbaqua5627 And commenting about water, with Water in your name!
@@kathleennorton6108 Water 💦 boyyyy lol 😂 what's funny is just a few hours ago I was thinking about changing the name coz I feel bad, there's a pool supplies company called Water Baqua and I'm sitting here on their name
I always love how inventive and adaptive people are. We give ourselves a lot of justified grief for much of our behavior but we really are an incredible species.
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@@tama3442 Jesus is alive...yes yes yes ...Romans couldn't kill him...God our Lord saved him....
humans are a horrible species. We are what's wrong with the world. Mother Nature will take care of that.
@@tama3442 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Good one.
@@thetrollslayer3716 You religion folk crack me up.😃😃😃
Absolutely wonderful! I am so thankful for the people that came up with this and are providing good water to people.
It looks good in these videos, but I'd be very surprised these actually work well enough to provide any consistent water to the locals whatsoever. These types of ideas and videos have been going around for a long time, and they are chalked full of propaganda and provide very little in the lines of actual experimental data collected. They can say 10,000 litres all day long, but I encourage you to actually drive or hike to one of these areas and see them in action. I think you will be quite disappointed by the lack of potable water actually collected in bins. I have a friend out west who tried something similar. Yes they will sometimes be wet in the middle of the night, but they hold most of that moisture like a sponge. They also look like crap across the landscape, and the high winds can easily destroy days worth of work.
Buy hey, I'm still hopeful we'll be able to see a reliable scientific video which gives actual results and testimony at some point in our lifetime.
@@Rick-the-Swift it's a scam. there is maybe 0.000001% of area where the climate allows this to work. plenty of credible videos on youtube debunking this.
that's an outstanding idea. I hope they have good water management approaches to avoid contamination and keep drinking it safely.
Probably various forms of chlorine and iodine
No minerals but what is option.
Pop a few Chlor tablets and you good to go
It's essentially distilled water plus whatever dust was in the air. Simple mechanical filtration to remove dust + carbon filtration to pull out any chemical pollutants should suffice. Chlorine/iodine should be unnecessary as there's no biological contamination. Even without any filtration it should be drinkable, since they're literally breathing the same pollutants/dust/bacteria/spores and our stomachs are less sensitive than our lungs.
@@ParadigmUnkn0wn very true.
I learned to do that back in the mid-70s in desert survival training. You'll be surprised how much liquid you can gather through condensation.
Is there always /mostly fog in all deserts? Is this possible in all deserts? Even inland?
Can you explain the technique plz or refer to info plz?
@@barnabyvonrudal1 No, not all deserts. I live in the Sonoran desert and fog is rare unless it's the day after a heavy rain. Moisture will come in, during the evening in the air and you can feel the cool sensation but it's not at a point that it would catch and condense heavily in nets like this. I believe there are some ways in a survival situation using a plastic lined in a small hole dug but it's been so long since I have seen talks about it.
@@randomness8819 fog cools down or condenses on those nets to water droplets .from there slide down using gravity in to drums.
@@barnabyvonrudal1 No only on places near costal areas, if it's on higher ground it's even better.
This's not new tech by any standard the video made it look like a dutch invention or something.
Did you know that trees perform that job naturally, but it is transferred to the ground water table and streams. A lot of places have the water problems because they cut down all the trees and paved the ground = no water.
And the prairies are turning to dust because of the destruction of the grazing animals. They're also needed to rebuild the soil structure and spread seed.
Smooth observation
@@beebob1279 yes exactly, seed the ground and get all the animals back in!
MIght be true. Yet a healthy forest needs at least a generation or more to grow. So in the meantime this is a good way to provide men and plants with water
@@elha7982 you dont need a forest. You need some hardy plants that grow fast and you follow those with water retaining plants and the water will return very quickly. Projects are bringing water back in less than 5 years. There are well documented processes and the results are very fast. And the system then automates itself. Once the plants are in place and collecting water it is only a matter of time before the plants saturate the ground with moisture. But these areas are dry, so catching water to give to the plants is a good start, but they need to grow non crop plants with the water to bring water back for the crops. If they just grow straight crops they will continue the removal of water from the system.
Thanks!
Wow! This is a pretty amazing technique! Cheap, efficient and highly effective!
I know right, yet there are so many "inventions" in places like GoFundMe, IndieGoGo and Kickstarter that claims to do the same thing.
Wonderful to see people in true need being helped
so wonderful in fact that we will continue to generate people in need just so we can feel good about ourselves when we help some of them.
@@Jalae First you wash instead of wiping
Isnt it. Instead of tryimg to exti guish them. Help them. What a concept
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@@__-si9ux i don't know what you mean. are you giving me advice or insulting me?
@@Jalae It's advice for Western an European countries an it's common sense that you people should wash it instead of wiping with papers
How clever is that, I am always amazed by the simple solutions that some people come up with to solve a problem and provide a solution that enhances life for people. Well done, such a credit to the creator.
I think that the nets are not properly cleaned well enough. Introducing grit and desert soil into the drinking water. This is why I will not donate to help.
@@jonothandoeser omg imagine if filters were invented!!! LMAO
@@germanher7528 Expensive, inconvenient filters? To try and purify the sludge from your crap nets???
It's fascinating how fog forms in deserts. I grew up in Las Vegas and never saw fog until I moved to Colorado. I wonder if the crop growing can lead to a change in climate over time or if the amount of water needed is impossible.
Israel has found favorable changes in their climate due to the innovative growing of plants in their dry areas.
Plants depend more on the climate than the opposite. There are forests where it rains. There are deserts where its dry. The desert in that region is due to the altitude of the Andes. Almost no humidity reaches the land. Warm and humid air from the pacific ocean rains by the coast line because, as air is forced into the high land, it gets colder and water precipitates.
What may happen is that, of they grow plants using fog water, once they are grown enough they can start acting as natural fog catchers. Thus, a self-sustained vegetation could be grown there. (And I might be totally wrong, but that is a possibility that I just imagined).
@Limeade The Hawaiian islands are not tropical simply because they have foliage. If you were looking for an example, you picked a terrible one.
Curious about this as well. Is there anything they can plant that can be used to kick start a change. I feel like if there was some foliage then this process would happen naturally. It seems strange to me that an area that receives that kind of fog would be a desert.
While there are business you can doubt about it.
The cool part of this is that it mimics nature. The Namib Desert Beetle survives in these dry climates by climbing to high points and catching the fog on its body, which roll in a water droplet down its wings to its mouth, providing water for life.
Thats fun to know, also on a larger scale
God is the great and awesome innovator. Nobody can compare, but we certainly can learn from His mighty works.
@@kathleennorton6108 We are not doing fairy tales here,
@@robertsparling He won't be a fairytale for you when you come before Him.
@@kathleennorton6108 You won't be so arrogant when you have to explain yourself to Krishna.
I'm very impressed with this project .
I think that something similar was set up in Africa 's west coast , on the coastal area , to harvest water and also to try and help green this coastal region of the Sahara .
long live green Africa
Yes we have those in Morocco too.
@@ecosemx Greetings for good people of Morocco... love your chocolate, if you know what I mean... Can't wait to visit Morocco one summer
@@mangodzeri6613
Uhh chocolat
Amazing! Blessings to the people who invented this wonderful, life-saving nets!
This method was used centuries ago for collecting sea mist for grape vines in Italy. (Or it may have been Spain.)
Yep, those life saving PLASTIC nets surely wont lead to future diseases or complications at all, right?
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Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of GOD, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Romans 10:9
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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@@lastofthebest5102 There are many types of plastic. Some of them may well be quite safe. I doubt if we will ever stop using plastics, but some types may be deadly. As always, knowledge and discrimination are required as we are stuck with plastic for many years to come.
@@tama3442 The good news is that jesus never existed and your god is a fairy tale created for the gullible non thinking masses.
Amazing!
whoever created this is a true life saving genius.
This was a South African design many years back. I was fortunate enough to have visited Peru. Beautiful country with lovely people. Still my top 3 destinations just because of the people.
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Lekker man. Ek bly in Chile. Lekker om te hoor van ons bydraing.
@Danny Archer Broer die website van Creating Water werkt niet wat is dit
@@chinadashauthority65 Wrong language. Nice try though.
Yes this looks like it can be used in many parts of Africa for the millions who need water. I hope this becomes more common
Thank you for helping the people of Peru! What a great way to give them water
They used to do it before him
I love great news like this. Hope others on earth gets the same nets who have no water.
I just worry the winds will destroy all the nets
@@cargosaigon6053 true.dont worry though they still have stocks of water while remaking destroyed nets.
its really pleasing to see May God bless everyone & give hidayah to everyone Love you all 🥰🥰🥰
AMAZING ! ! ! Many compliments to the minds that conceived this means of collecting water!
This is technology at its simplest that has a high yield benefit compared to the necessary input. The benefit to the local population is great and will improve their daily lives immeasurably. This proves that low tech still has its place in the world.
Ah, but, there is no profit in low tech solutions.
@@fredgillespie5855 No, or little, monetary profit, but plenty of benefits: fewer people in poverty struggling to live, which correlates to less crime and less money spent policing; limiting desertification, which must be done for survival; many studies show that those who benefit from initiatives like this have a higher predisposition to contribute to society, which often means less poverty and less crime.
However, those are public and long-term benefits, and unfortunately, fewer people are motivated by those types of benefits.
@@fredgillespie5855 simple tech have more profit margin, arguably.
And this is not a low tech, it's simple yes but not low tech.
@@Isaic02 - I absolutely agree with you on all that, I was simply explaining why the big boys are not interested in such solutions - that puts power in the hands of the people rather than in the hands of corporations.
I love this! Giving those people the freedom to grow their own food and be independent. Beautiful.
@@user-fv3vq4qq7m no
@@user-fv3vq4qq7m
What?
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The true gospel is the good news that God saves sinners. Man is by nature sinful and separated from God with no hope of remedying that situation. But God, by His power, provided the means of man’s redemption in the death, burial, and resurrection of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of GOD, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Romans 10:9
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
JESUS CHRIST can come anytime!
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@@tama3442 The good news is that jesus never existed and your god is a fairy tale created for the gullible non thinking masses.
An innovative solution to a desperate problem.
Congratulations! I hope the idea will spread far and wide
I love it when humanity comes together ❤️
I love innovation! I hope this spreads and helps many poor communities!
Old thing isn’t an innovation they just wake up yesterday in chile in the Atacama desert people do this thing for years
A fantastic project. Thank you to Allllll involved in the process and helping to alleviate the challenges of the peoples. Cape Town
this is trully wholesome, I love the fact that we humans learn to use our knowledge to help others in a way that even we barely spend money, it will be still helpful for people who are in needs
Wow God bless everyone of you that helped with this incredible thing for people- very important to get clean water.
*satan bless
@@goldpotato1885 this right here 😇
@@goldpotato1885 God Bless you
All edge, no point
@@goldpotato1885 it took this long for human ingenuity (and their free wills, Christians) to overcome God creating a water shortages in many places, causing countless deaths in Africa for example. So I think it's right to say "Satan bless them" for defeating God's plan for dehydrating the masses.
Thank you, Adam Danyal ✅ atmospheric water collection is the future! I would hope more people will learn about this ☮️
This video makes me Happy
We need solutions like this to make world a better place
I can fix that. Let me make you unhappy. The system worked for a decade in the 1990s. It failed and no longer works. Since 2003, there are no fog collection nets, and they're just trucking water and pouring it down the pipes. At least those still works. Burried pipes can last a long time. Heck, the pvc pipes I nailed to the side of my house, exposed to rain and sun everyday, is still fine 2 decades later.
I really like this channel because it promotes life. People coming together with solutions to tackle drought and unclean drinking water...the work of real heroes
I Love this!
If done consistently, I strongly believe the landscape will begin changing.
While it's a great temporary solution, that is unfortunately the problem. In the long term it causes the landscape to be drier. Hence the reason why such devices are commonly considered illegal in various US states. It takes water from the ecosystem meaning it wouldn't be deposited through the land and replenish aquifers.
If this is a coastal area, then removing water that would've been part of aquifer means the ground eventually soaks in sea water vs the balance with fresh water.
@@Omenslol Thank you.. was getting annoyed how everyone just sees intimidate benefit and ignores the well known, decade long study's of the issues this will cause..
That said, if i had to approve between this or Weather Modification.... this is way better... but as the saying go "Robbing Peter to pay Paul"
@@dondutch4107 The Chinese released a bunch of metal particles in the air to attract the smog to have clear skies on one day of their holidays. I have no idea what the side effects could be from the metal but hey atleast they had clear skies for a day! Is there any other weather modifiers you've heard of? Because that's the only 1 I have heard of.
wait till you find out about trees!
- you will be amazed!!
- I am not joking, btw. - trees do amazing things to the environment. water soil and air - all depends on plants & animals
I dont think it works because in many dry desert areas fog formation is very low.
Loved the simple yet elegant solution to the water crisis.
One of the most fascinating clips I have seen in a long while. I live on an island off the Texas Coadt where must pay a minimum of $80.00 per month for water because it must be purchased and piped in from Houston. We certainly have a good supply of fog and this fog catcher thing might be cheaper than desalination plants. But we also have a good deal of air pollution when the air is out of the north, which is pretty rare I would think.
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Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of GOD, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Romans 10:9
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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Winds in the Texas coast are predominantly in the south, especially in the summer months
was payin 75month in pennsy. moved to phillipines. my bill last month was 273pesos.less than 6bucks.of course we have a series of filtration systems for potable water. the water is chlorinated & my qualitative tests say its ok. i still make sure it goes thru a series of filters including, UV, reverse osmosis, hydrogenation, & alkalization.
If you're worried about pollution, have the collected water run through a carbon filter system before it goes into storage.
@@JosefMengeleNHS if a guy doesnt believe in himself to get thru life hes gotta believe in somethin...like the 🐦 in the bush cause his hands, like his head🥴, are empty😕
That’s amazing, I love when smart and sustainable engineering like this comes along and helps 100s of people and the planet 👏🏽
This is fascinating - it is almost like a real-life version of the wind traps on Arrakis written about in Frank Herbert's Dune.
I was thinking the same thing!! So cool
The very reason i clicked on the video
Art influences and shapes society.
@@Aurillia more like herbert did his homework
I would still add a filter at the bottom of the tank. The change of microplastics from the polypropylene is a concern. Micro plastics are a know endocrine disrupter and can upset the human hormonal system and are a possible carcinogen.
How small should the filter be?
Ummmm, it is filtered.
He states around 2:42 that it is a passive process and doesn't require any energy other than the FILTRATION for the whole process of supplying drinking water to the people.
This is not a quote but a generalized summary of what he said about the energy needs if any.
I believe the program announcer said the nets were made of polypropylene, not micro plastics. At any rate it's good to see people doing something constructive with their environment. Trying to help rather than destroy.👵❣
@@barbdouglas3197 Micro plastics are just very very tiny pieces of plastic, polypropylene is a plastic. If microscopic pieces of it break off into the water then you'll have micro plastics in the water. The water is filtered though, so hopefully the filter is good enough to take out any potential micro plastics from the nets.
@@dwerg1 Thank you. I'm not a chemical engineer, so that stuff can get right past me. I don't ever drink anything out of plastic of any kind anyway. So I hope no one else does either. Plastic baby bottles really ticked me off!!👵😇
I read about this method of farming water from clouds in the mountains, and It was ingenious back than. Its one of those discoveries that changes the lives of all those in the area.
It would be so cool to see local tinkerers and techies from Uruguay or even Lima to try making it more efficient without using any or little power. Every drop counts
It's the first time I've heard of it and was amazed how simple an idea can also be ingenious.
And yet is touted as some sort of "new" invention.
Love when science brings simple solutions to human problems
I saw this years ago in a documentary and I always wondered why this could not be used in places that always suffer from drought. The mountainous hills just outside San Francisco would be an ideal location since it's always foggy.
The first issue is, people in San Francisco don't need to use it when they don't have a drought. The second issue would be collecting enough water from nets to provide for everyone in the area for their everyday lives or at least subsidize enough during droughts. And lastly the other issue would be is transporting that water - what methods would be used (pipelines, by vehicle, etc)? Oh, and if we managed to collect most of that water from the fog, then plants in the area would suffer as a result of us taking it.
In my opinion, I don't know the area well enough, but if they are close to the ocean, I don't understand why there isn't a filtration system. Even just a simple one in order to use for farming/irrigating land. Of course it is easier said than done. But if they have been living like this for decades, I'd imagine they could have set up some kind of method by now.
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Those mountains you are talking about average 26-50 inches of rain a year. ZERO need of this technology
@@protonneutron9046 Yes I know. The goal is water supply for communities that don't have the rain fall.
@@CrudChronicles ?? so why would you want in the very wet SF mountains?
This is very much evident of how Mother Nature provides for humanity no matter where you are or on what condition you live in. All you have to do is utilize the nature wisely to your cause.
Always worshiping the creation and not the Creator. Smdh
@@MASTER.SON. prove there is a creator. Nature is real. Why worship anything at all?
If Mother Nature truly "provided" for humanity, she'd make it rain in these areas.
Our Living God in heaven is real. Even satan shakes hearing His Name. Nature is real, too. It's provided by our Creator. Freewill is His gift. It's my free will to believe in God. It's ur free will not to. We'll see soon in the end. Search this in google bar: John 3:16
@@kissit012 by logic creation implies there is a creator. And the fact that humans hold the concept of an Ideal: a perfect standard, especially considering nothing in this world shows evidence of perfection to even cause the Mind to create the concept in the first place - is enough for me to know there's a Creator. More farfetched and illogical to believe creation that has form, function and design just happened randomly. Right 😒
This is awesome. Every inch of land should be utilized to get as much water as possible. also it would be nice if they dig narrow trenches to collect any rainwater if it rains. Please check the PAANI project that was successful in India in drought ridden villages. they just made trenches and ponds to collect and gather every possible drop of rain water however little it was and within one seasonal rainfall the ponds and trenches were over flowing with water. These places are now thriving.
Thank you for sharing!
its the driest desert on earth, there isn't any rain!
when there is so much moisture to form fog there could be clouds too just that right now there is nothing to hold the clouds. maybe in a decade or so if they successfully plant a lot trees this very moisture can turn into rain. it may not rain now for this generation but if people are persistent in 20 years their kids and grandkids might enjoy a forest and rains. even the driest places do receive some rain even if it is once in a couple of years. keeping the trenches and ponds ready to be filled can come in handy. I just pray and hope they enjoy clean drinking water.
It rains every 100 years dude
@@talusranch990 and this could very well be the 100th year - who knows. nature can behave in very unpredictable ways.
What a wonderful thing 💓! So many of us take clean water for granted. Thank you for sharing.
I get water droplets on my tent in the morning everytime I go camp even in drier places. Sometimes wet enough that the dirt on the sides of the tent gets visibly wet from the dripping water. Never thought of drinking them, as I already have unlimited water supply nearby: the river.
Guess I was too ignorant to notice this incredible technique!
This also highlights the reason why this fog catchers is a rather silly idea.
If you have enough moisture in the air that there's enough fog to catch , you're probably not in a water scarce area.
If you're in a really arid area, all you'll be catching is wind.
@@yvrelna oh, my science teacher once said wind can carry water from the sea or any other open water to far enough places that has very dry climate and scarce underground water.
But how do I know, I didn't live in that place. If it's cheaper to get water that way (despite the lack of minerals in it), then it works for them, I think.
@@yvrelna The idea works and it works really well in this particular type of area. Maybe it's just that you aren't smart enough to realize it.
Unlike Dimas' case. Peru is a desert on a mountain bordered by sea. Yes, the place is clearly not water scarce but they're all salt water. Can't find a river either because even they have one around, it's still a trip up and down a mountain which probably not an energy efficient choice.
This water net thing turns moisture in the sea into drinkable waters without the need of a desalination plant. If this idea is silly then I don't know what isn't.
There's a reason sheep never drink from flowing water. I am sure you know this, but be careful with that. Just takes one dead donkey up the river and you're fucked.
@@minimushrom that's why you should boil your water no matter how clean you think the water is. I have portable water filtration ready on my backpack too when I'm in the woods.
This is fascinating. The idea of getting clean fresh water from the air. Turning arid land into arable. Though the natural habitat would depend on that water as would the fog pattern itself for the constant repetition of moisture to be available. Tides and wind patterns of the ocean are certainly the resource of this phenomenon and are proving quite inconsistent with the changing weather and jet stream patterns occurring with ever greater frequency as the planet experiences warming. Though this is a wonderful step forward it would be very wise to make sure the trucks that bring the water now are, at least in some measure, kept in business, good repair and available for shortages that are bound to occur as weather patterns shift.
I am interested to do in my city
There is no such thing as desert fog. The humidity is under 25%. There is only coastal fog and some lake fog.
Imagine you gonna see something so inspiring and you click on it,and two unskippable ads ruin your whole day mood.
I 'member reading about these in the mid-80s: it was an interesting article. I'm glad to hear about it again so many years later. (In the article the innovators were called "Cloud-Nuts". But, it worked!)
It only works in places that are not dry.
The last I looked, deserts were the driest places on earth, with no moisture in the air!
@@DogSerious Deserts are only partly dry. Stuff like this is centuries old just with modern materials.
Another old way was to piss in one spot and have a tent shape over the hole and as it evaporates over the day the water collects on the material above and drips down into a container. (Also works to just dig down to some moist soil or something like cactus)
@@SilvaDreams If deserts were only partly dry then they would have much more foliage. You would need acres of land covered in nets just to make a mouthful. Also, study the cactus and see why it's the only plant basically to survive in deserts, there's no moisture there, and certainly not in amounts fit for humans!
@@DogSerious desert plants and trees do this all the time. Different deserts have different levels of water.
If it fogs, this can be done.
@@GreenGorgeousness lol, desert plants are designed to have minimal water vapor intake, because there's no moisture in deserts, lol.
Wow. So simple, and at the same time incredibly clever!
I’ve heard of the before.. it’s pretty cool. Amazing how little tiny droplets of mist can add up and provide a reasonable supply of water.
Hmm desert fog must be a beautiful. Best thing I loved about Vegas deserts were the middle of no where thunderstorms. Beautiful.
I'm speechless. This is absolutely brilliant! Thanks for sharing
California should set fog nets up instead depending on rain water.
Good job guys woo I love seeing technology used for good.
All My Respect To these Hard working People 🙏🙏
Wow, I never knew Fog could even be harvested. Really impressive!
There's a beetle (called the desert beetle), does this in a similar way the fog catchers do. Maybe inspired from them? Which I remember they've talked about how to replicate the beetles ability to catch water on it's back in early morning a while long ago. Now they've finally put it into action.
Rain, hail and snow can also be harvested.
Así es agua para todos !
@@originalsunnyboy And urine.
Plants breath (transpire). You can take a clear plastic bag and wrap a plant and tie it off at the base of the foliage along the stem and return to water later. They make collectors for these but it’s more of a survival tool for a limited amount of water.
If there's enough water, theymust start little forest systems so as to increase greenery and cut desertification by increasing humidity and ultimately rainfall.. this too depends if the region gets fall too😕
Correct
There are plenty of varieties of desert grass that will survive in that environment. The grasses can be used to stop soil erosion regulate temp. trap moisture in the soil and fill aquifers. Putting up these nets seems like a good start to providing drinking water but unless the land is properly managed there will always be problems.
Nope. There are no known desert grasses that will survive on 1/2 inches of precipitation a year.
@@protonneutron9046 there's already grasses there you can see them in the picture. It's plain the area has been overgrazed.
Just wondering if this has negative impacts on the vegetation in the area. Desert fog is vital for desert plants and the plants are vital for wildlife. Definitely seems like a better idea than pumping aquifers.
Thats a really good idea, love it who ever has discovered it. It will help soo soo many ppl
This's not new..
@@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx not only isn't it new, it no longer works. It hasn't worked for 20 years. That's a whole generation.
This is ingenious !! I so love this I'm so glad that they can grow their own food and have drinking water bathing water whatever they need water for I'm so Happy for them 💛🙏😊💙
These nets look like they are made of cheap plastic, which would degrade fast because of the Sun's UV rays. I hope I am wrong, otherwise these people could end up ingesting a ton of micro plastic particles.
The close up looks like knitted shadecloth that we use in Australia for shadehouses, it last for years
@@katekristensen5953 Its exaclty that. There are other more sofisiticated meterials now, but this solution is very cheap.
I was wondering about the uv damage too
This is a great invention … many will be thankful for this.
Superb. Great Going Sir
How long do the nets last and how much do they cost? What are the labor costs for the whole project?
If it drags water from the air to the people who need it, no price is too high.
@@elizabethwest9729 This material can contaminate the soil and harm the health of children. It's a big price
@@drak0an What materials do you suggest? We need to stop putting folks down for trying to help themselves. If you see a problem with this, offer up a solution
@@drak0an This is a troll.
@@balancedlifetodayalways8512 jute maybe ? It's cheap and desorderly wooly and then can harvest water.
The key is to plant more trees. It's likely that this place, with this much moisture, had vegetation and trees in the past, but overgrazing destroyed it. With more trees, you get even more fog, and ultimately you'll have rain, then springs.
I was thinking the same thing. Improve the soil and plant trees. Maybe when the trees have grown a decent size, they won't need the nets anymore?
Grazing animals improve the soil greatly you'd start with capturing enough water that grasses can grow and add animals slowly, so as the soil improves and more grasses can grow, more animals can feed and improve the soil faster still...
@@losfromla1480 to improve soil with grazing you need to enclose them and move them around, it's a LOT of work. If you let grazing animals roam free; you've destroyed everything, they will kill all grasses and young trees. Since there's just trees so far and no grass at all, it's not possible. IMO they first need a lot of trees acting as their fog nets, I'm sure there's a native species with foliage that'll act in the same way, capturing fog droplets.
@@nicolasbertin8552 yeah, you'd need a good amount of grasses first. Native, hardy species. Without grasses around the trees, you'd lose far too much water to evaporation. At least that's the case here in California, mulching reduces the use of water by keeping evaporation to a minimum. So I suppose they could plant trees and mulch heavily.
But to mulch you need trees, and they don't have trees :D Their process will be slow. They can only count on planting and sowing.
Intelligent mind can only do these type of inventions, and also good luck for further inventions ❤️☺️😌
This is a neat technology. I do have questions. Does it actually work as well as shown on the video? How long do the nets last? Wind is a very corrosive force.
Also, is the water contaminated with micro-plastics from the plastic nets as they break down? (they will break down due to sunlight, as well as the wind like you mentioned)
My desert "experience" tells me that nylon net will last about 6 month average. It will likely be destroyed by the sand storm
@@winstonsmith8482 its one of the safer plastics and even has some acid resistances to prevent from breaking down and regardless the water is still filtered if used for drinking
the nets do have to be cleaned regularly tho as mold will eventually form
@@odissey2 its a different material,
Polypropylene
more durable than
polyamide (nylon)
shade cloth is extremely durable.
The condensation from that fog is absolutely crucial for other ecosystems.
I was thinking the same thing
The driest place on earth can't have much fog...
Geez! Someone will always find something to complain about.
@@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 that’s why it’s crucial
@@Johnnyreengo I wasn't disagreeing with you, I doubt that there is enough fog to even get water from. I'm getting some scam vibes from the whole situation.
This is brilliant. If implemented on a large enough scale, this could feed irrigation systems for entire farms. It could hydrate towns even.
If it's all foggy, you mean?
LOVE seeing positive impacts
saw a story on this nearly 40 years ago. Given the stat about how many are still without drinking water, would be curious how well this has really performed and why not more wide spread after all this time.
Probably how much you would spend on collecting and transporting.
I suspect it wasn't applied because people weren't desperate enough to employ it. Now with global warming, evaporated water goes above our cloud cover so we have no rain - this technology MUST be employed!
It's very very situation specific. You basically need to live up on the mountain in the first place.
Simple yet effective and life saving. Does air quality effect the water from the fog droplet? I over heard them say something about filtering the collected water. Is it potable unfiltered? If anyone has answers after reading this that would be cool. Thanks
Not 100% sure, but vehicle particulates are less likely in rural areas, and carbon dioxide etc won't be an issue. Given it's a sandy desert, sand grit might be an issue, but will likely settle out too.
I'd guess it's largely equivalent to distilled water, but I'm not an expert
Measuring particulate fallout used to be my job. Yes, plenty of material in apparently clean air. Dust from the ground to bugs (and parts of bugs). There is likely the issue of algae/moss growth on the sheets that may or may not be toxic.
@@PhilJonesIII given the desert air I'd be more worried about the collection trough or tank, as the mesh likely dries out during the day. Fog isn't going to be an all day event in most cases.
Maybe more a concern during any rainy season they have tho?
@@michaelsorensen7567 it is a property of water vapour that it will condense on dust particles first.
The sheets will also accumulate particulates, even when dry.
The quantities are quite likely small and filtration likely before going into those big tanks. This would avoid accumulation of sediment over time.
@@PhilJonesIII I see now that last comment of mine wasn't specific enough, it was meant to solely address the algae issue, sorry for my lack of clarity.
You're right about the dust and potential sediment accumulation though.
What amazing technology! Thanks for sharing. I will subscribe and share. 👍💖
This is Real sustainable technology that helps people and the environment easy. Thank God to the Designers.
This mans voice sounds like one of those scammers who ring you on the phone.
fog catchers do what trees do. dont cut the trees, life for everything.
Right but not every climate has an abundance of trees like deserts to do that.
Yeah except one cannot attach a tube and tank to a tree to capture drinking water
If you set this up to flow between rows of crops, you have an irrigated farm without having to redirect a river or something. Awesome!
Good job 👍👌. Brilliant can only think these kind of ideas.
THE ATACAMA DESERT IS IN CHILE, NOT IN PERU, MAYBE IS THE SECHURA DESERT.
This is the same process that has been used for millions of years by the giant sequoias of the Pacific coastal mountains, stretching from California to British Columbia.
why isn't California using this today?
Ah, human engineering will never cease to amaze me. Props to those people who now are living almost self-sufficiently.
This is called appropriate technology. Awesome innovation and idea. Kudos team. 🙏🙏🙏
I saw a similar idea but with plants on some island. The indigenous plants had been cleared for grazing from the hill tops which wiped out the islands water supply, so now they have replanted the hills and added catchment systems to direct this total dependent water resource. On a side note the amount of human settlements which wiped themselves out due to deforestation is stupendous... but still we wont learn.
I have always thought that the Horn of Africa was once heavily forested, pumping water into the moist ocean air which produced rain in the area that is now the Sahara Desert. Don't know if that's true...but there did use to be lakes and rivers where there is now an ocean of sand. -Veteran '66-68
@@rogeranderson8763 Yes, so many forests wiped out for industry without the thought that they can be replanted throughout our history. Take the Babylonians, Aztecs, English and so on and we still don't learn that forests are regions weather regulators... and that is just dumb.
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That looks cool as long as the whole structure is brand-new, but how would you solve the problem of mold, mildew, and bacteria? Stagnant and slowly collecting waters are notorious for building up natural contaminants.
Also strong winds destroying the structre, and sun destroying the plastic. But maybe reseach and testing can find exceptional materials.
I would think once the fog dissipates and the heat of the sun gets on those collectors very little mould and mildew would survive. Just my opinion though.
@@w00dsm0ke That's exactly what happened to this installation (as I recall). Wind damage, sun degradation, and a lack of funds to keep it running.
It's windy and sunny all day long, there wouldn't be any stagnant water sitting around if it's drying out again every morning.
In some locales of the U.S., this would be illegal. They don't even let you catch rainwater.
What on earth? What’s the reason behind that?
Various reasons. Some of them are old laws from Gold Rush-era battles over water rights, some jurisdictions view it as a threat to tax revenue or control over natural resources.
This is amazing, what cleverness , why isn't this sort of innovation shown more often?
I have used this for years on a portable and much smaller level. This is great for costal camping too.
Hi Tiago Nemo. Can you share
Yes, I’m curious as well.
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An old idea I remember being discussed in the "Mark Trail" comic strip over 60 years ago.
I'm so happy someone else remembers and has acted on it!
Amazing if only we could get more of these sort of techs to the people that need it the most the world be much better for it.
It's Suppressed. Lucifarian agenda doesn't support it.. it would require replanting also to hold the water permanently, exposed forests suffer water loss. They are chopping Dow the last of the old forests while peddling climate change and eco protection. Both of which is utter twaddle.
Put it this way a 15/1 year. Old invented a ocean garbage collection boat which sails around and skims all the rubbish out cleaning up the garbage patch. Instead all we got was a voge magazine. How dare you kid scripted by the globalists. Crickets for the true hero.
I visited this poor region during a humanitarian aid trip and they would really benefit from this innovation. That's amazing!
Amazing! I never cease to marvel at the ingenuity of human beings.
It should made from biodegradable materials, not plastic. This woven fabric is especially prone to produce microplastics.
How long would nth ebiodegradable material last compared to the plastic?
Micro Plastics are a non issue. You just shit them out! And, how come plastics degrade down to micro plastics and not go all the way to nothing. There are bacteria that love plastic. Micro Plastics are a fallacy, just like Climate Change.
@@rudycramer225 are those plastic eating bacteria found in the wild or just cultivated in labs?
@@barnabyvonrudal1 WIld.
@@rudycramer225 The only fallacy was your education.
I'd like to know what the cost/durability of these nets are? It seems like they would need to be replaced pretty regularly which could be a problem for an impoverished community if the funding for this project ever dries up
These net are pretty tough. They can withstand sun and wind. They last at least 3-4 years easily
Cost is low and even a material like rice bags could be used
I mean wow , use of nature without harming the nature ❤️ 🌎