Fog is a cheap and abundant source of fresh water, especially in remote dry regions. And it also has great potential for cities. How fog collection works and where it is already being used.

Typically, fog collectors consist of a mesh material suspended between two posts. The mesh serves as a surface for catching moisture. The droplets gather on the mesh and drip down into a gutter ...

Fog is a cheap and abundant source of fresh water, especially in remote dry regions. And it also has great potential for cities. How does fog collection work, and where it is already being used?

Fog collectors typically consist of a mesh suspended between two posts. The mesh serves as an interception surface to catch moisture. Droplets collate on the mesh and fall into a gutter leading to ...

There’s a technique called fog catching that’s been used on a small scale for decades. Nets are used to trap fog and water is channelled into pipes and storage tanks. But now, in the Atacama ...

No pipes, no wells, no rainfall? The solution may be to catch water from fog. We meet Abel Cruz, the Peruvian man behind a huge fog net project which is providing water to a community in the slums ...

Fog collectors typically consist of a mesh suspended between two posts. The mesh serves as an interception surface to catch moisture. Droplets collate on the mesh and fall into a gutter leading to ...

There’s a simple hack to get water in places where supply is scarce – and that’s through catching fog. We find out if this could be a possible solution to the global water crisis.