Chanara, Chile (Reuters) -In the arid Chile, Atacama, the most drought desert in the world, farmers and researchers look forward to harnessing water from the same air to develop lettuce and lemon, using a network to capture drops of wet fog.
“We are growing fully watery with fog water in the dry desert on this planet,” Reuters, head of the fog association in Atakama, said, “We are growing a fully water lettuce with fog water in the dry desert on this planet,” where some areas do not see rains for years, “Orlando Rojas, President of the Fog Owners Association in Atacama, told Reuters near Chanara, where Reuters did not see Reuters near Caneral in Atacama.
“We had other crops that did not result in results, which is why we are tending to do lettuce.”
The researchers at the UC Atacama Desert Center launches an open access platform to show the location of the areas that have the ability to harvest blurry water in the country, in an attempt to open these arid areas for agriculture.
“We know its potential and know that it can be a choice and a solution to meet the various measures of water needs in different areas where there is a great scarcity of water,” said Camello del Rio, director of the UC Atacama Desert Center.
Amid the arid rock hills and dry white sand, the system works using a suspended network between two poles that display the small amount of moisture in the air, and convert it into drops that are collected and stored in water tanks.
“We are able to collect between 1000 to 1400 liters of water in these uncleal places, as it is clear that we do not prefer nature in other ways.”
“We have the possibility of life, which is this water resource. Once we learned about this project, we did not stop because it is vital to human life.”
Mario Sigovia, also of the fog group, said that the water collected from moisture in the air was pure.
“The harvest does not seem bad, it’s very healthy food, and pure organic nutrients,” he said. “They are in a state of water with nutrients, because this foggy square water is completely neutral, and it does not contain minerals, nor chlorine, and nothing.”
(Participated in the reports of Rodrigo Guterres; written by Adam Jordan; edited by Nia Williams)
