For Chileans who live in the Atacama Desert, the Earth's driest desert, getting potable drinking water is a stroke of luck. Drought is a major concern for cities there, which survive on prehistoric ...
Panoramic view of Alto Hospicio, located in Chile's Atacama desert, one of the driest places in the world. Credit: Dr Virginia Carter Gamberini. With less annual rainfall than 1 mm per year, Chile’s ...
(Nanowerk Spotlight) The global challenge of freshwater scarcity has spurred scientists to explore innovative solutions for sustainable water collection. Among these, fog harvesting has emerged as a ...
Access to clean and reliable water sources is a constant challenge in most arid and impoverished countries. According to UN data, 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water ...
LAARE, Kenya – Jacob Murungi and his wife don't sleep much. Instead, they spend their nights in the local forest high in the mountains of central Kenya collecting water — from the trees. "I'm out here ...
How do you turn mist into usable water? See how scarcity inspires ingenuity in parched Lima, Peru. In the desert city of Lima, a city of 10 million people by the Pacific Ocean, mist is an important ...
Manzoor Qadir receives institutional funding from the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada. Vladimir Smakhtin receives institutional funding from Global Affairs Canada. Water scarcity is ...
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