Peruvians, living in one of the driest regions in the world, are trying to find a solution to the problem of water in the literal sense of the word “catching fog”. Special devices will catch and collect drops of moisture from the swirling integument.
The nongovernmental organization Peruvians Without Water helped purchase panels covered with polyethylene netting that carry drops through a pipe into a collection tank, which can be accessed by some 20,000 residents of the El Trebol squatter settlement in the capital city of Lima.
“It sounds like a miracle to us, because we didn't think we would have that much water from this fog catcher, ” says Justina Flores, 49, who lives on a bare hill with no trees.
Lima is the second largest city in the world after Cairo, built in the desert. Flores said that using a 20 sq. m can collect 200 liters of water per day and that this is enough to fill at least one public boiler, which is used by 60 of its neighbors.
More than 1.2 million people in the capital of Peru suffer from lack of access to water. And in areas like El Trebol, it is almost impossible to build infrastructure to provide drinking water.
According to official figures, one such home connection can cost 35 thousand US dollars.
For families like Flores, living in the high uninhabited hills was the only option because the prices of living in the lower part of the city are too high. Flores simply took over the land she now owns, like thousands of Peruvians over the past 60 years, with no planning and a lack of government interest in providing adequate housing options for the working class.
Squeeze water out of the fog
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