Peru slum goes cutting edge as 'fog catcher'

[phantom power]

LIMA (AFP) – Many of Peru's grittiest slums can only dream of access to water. But thanks to a German NGO, simple technology and hard work, some humble homes are the first to use plastic netting to harvest water from the fog cloaking the night sky.

In sprawling settlements like Bellavista del Paraiso -- a dusty clutch of streets on Lima's south end named "Beautiful View of Paradise" with some eye-popping optimism -- there is no running water.

There is no well.

Buying water, trucked in by resellers, costs nine times what it does in richer urban areas, precisely in places where no one can afford it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091112/lf_afp/environmentperuwatergermany

[JonQ]

1. That makes sense

in this part of the country we routinely get droughts coupled with record humidity (doesn't seem right to me). I've always wondered where there is no investment in some way to extract humidity at a cost effective rate.


I guess there is.

[ensho]

2. smart thinking

nt