Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as ...

A field study spanning a year showed that water collected from fog could ease water scarcity affecting vulnerable populations living in Chile’s Atacama Desert With less annual rainfall than 1 mm ...

Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a yearlong Chilean desert experiment.

Fog could be used to bring water to some of the world's driest regions following a discovery by scientists in South America. Researchers tested whether making water from fog could help solve the ...

But Alto Hospicio, like so many other coastal cities, is rich in an untapped water resource: fog. New research finds that by deploying fog collectors — fine mesh stretched between two poles ...

As cities grow, so does their demand for water, often surpassing the capacity of traditional sources. Many fast-expanding urban areas in dry regions struggle to supply their residents with enough ...

Capturing water from fog - on a large scale - could provide some of the driest cities in the world with drinking water. This is what researchers in Chile have concluded after studying the ...