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My wife brought this EcoSeed article to my attention today and I wanted to share it. Villages in Peru collect water in the form of fog as it moves through their land. In combination with other harvesting techniques, we could begin to transform water supply infrastructure to a more sustainable direction by taking advantage of what falls from the sky, or floats in the air. If we look hard enough, nature is showing us solutions to our water crisis.

Fog Catchers Bring Water to Parched Villages

When dense fog sweeps in from the Pacific Ocean, special nets on a hillside catch the moisture and provide precious water to the village of Bellavista, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) outside of Lima, Peru.

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