How Sahara Fog Nets are Making Abundant Water in the Desert

The Sahara is one of the most extreme and harshest environments on earth. Its the largest hot desert in the world spanning across 11 million km2 covering a greater surface than the Australian continent.
It has a vast topographical diversity from altitudes below sea level to mountains of 3,000 m resulting in a varied climate.
On the edge of the Sahara in South Western Morocco, the Anti-Atlas mountains receive less than 5.2 inches of rainfall a year, barely 10 percent of the global average, which makes this one of the driest place in morocco and is prone to severe droughts.
In this region 60% of people do not have running water in their homes, and the water may not be safe for drinking.
The lack of water and severe drought have made farming unpredictable, as a result men are forced to search for work in the cities, whilst women remain in the villages and walk for 3 miles a day to wells to access safe drinking water. Unfortunately these Wells are now drying up because ground water levels are plummeting
Currently around 40 percent of the world’s population faces water shortages. That includes some two billion without safe drinking water, despite the fact the planet is covered by 70% water bodies
Only 3% of the world’s water is actually freshwater and two-thirds of this is unavailable for us to access because it is tucked away in frozen glaciers.
However a new innovative technology is turning water scarcity around bringing safe drinking water to the Sahara region in south west Morocco.
In this video we will show you how water abundance is being created in the desert, using the largest water capturing system of its kind, to provide safe drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people, in 16 remote villages and how they have managed to irrigate agricultural fields, turning desertified land back into a farmland oasis.
T hanks to Aissa Derhem the president of the Moroccan NGO Dar Si Hmad, fertility in the western Sahara is being restored.
Aissa Derhem is mathematician and businessman whose parents were originally from Mount Boutmezguida in the anti atlas mountains near the coastal town of Sidi Ifni. where the slopes are covered in mist on average 130 days a year. Despite the lack of rain Aissa Derhem knew that he could create water from the fog.
Whilst living in Canada in the 1980s Aissa Derhem was studying for his PhD.
He learned about fog collection in Chile’s Atacama Desert one of the first projects in the world to collect water from nets. However it would have to be using slightly new technology that could withstand the strong winds that come off the Atlantic oceans
The German Water Foundation known as Wasserstiftung, have created a new innovative technology known as Aqualonis, formally known as CloudFisher, to catch safe drinking water with fog nets that can withstand 120km and have higher water yields than other types of fog nets.
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[@jerrywhere86193]

What is the real environmental impact on changing a dry place into a farming area on a global scale? If they are right and the butterfly affects are real. Then would taking water from the air destined for another religion cause your climate change? I understand that America, china and Russia are some of the worst in changing in local countries rain. But as they say "two wrongs don't make it right" and trying to make America the sole cause of the world's worst climate change producer wrong if the people of other countries are change the climate as well? There is so many hypocrisy going on in this world that it is not funny anymore.

[@curiousnomadic]

@@jerrywhere86193 It causes the climate to cool and be returned to where it was before humans overgrazed it. As the ambient temperatures cool the atmosphere can hold less water and as a result there is more rainfall increasing the former cycle that humans disrupted. This mythical human construct of yours "butterfly effect" is reduced as sands from the Sahara are less likely to be blown to countries in Europe and elsewhere. Trees and other vegetation also lock down the soils, they also keep the soils cool and moist and reduce evaporation.

[@curiousnomadic]

@@jerrywhere86193 "There is so many hypocrisy going on in this world that it is not funny anymore." There's so much idiocy going on in this world that thinks things like "hypocrisy" is even relevant to reality it is not funny anymore.

[@user-ul9is6nn1v]

These systems shouldnt be too expensive. Because you know Africa.... Even the countries in South America and Asia who have deserts are not so rich. Is this system good for poor countries?

[@peace4peaceful]

Would be nice to see more of the system working. Do they pipe the water to a tank or reservoir? How far are they going to take the project? Will it lead to reforresting and rewilding some parts? I've seen many videos where this has been done. Providing streams and lakes. It would be nice to see a complete video from start to finish and see what the people think and their future plans. Thanks for the videos.

[@user-tt4sh2yy6r]

Oh man how GREAT it feels to see some constructive development occurring on some surface of this planet.

[@Acr6gAttt-mq2hr]

It's like a breath of fresh air

[@Tadeoska]

when I was a kid in 2003 I saw on the Chilean public TV how Hugo Streeter Cortez make his firsts "Atrapanieblas" that we call in Spanish, after that, the idea of making this all around the world has accompanied me. It is an honor to watch how Moroccan people is doing it, greeting from Southern Chile.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

I think it could definately be made in different parts of the world 💧 🌎

[@alijaafari210]

thanks man, greeting from Morocco

[@iah469]

Chile could use this technology. It has one of the longest deserts in the Southern Hemisphere, caused by the Andes mountain range. This could overcome the obstacles of altitude and start reseeding the arid areas

[@Tadeoska]

@@iah469 that's right, in fact this technology is used in the Fray Jorge National Park, wilderness that hostage the northernmost Temperate Valdivian Rainforest that inspire the creation of the Atrapaniebla here on the 90's. This park lies close to the Atacama Desert, but on the Sea face of the Coastal Range, so the Camanchaca fog is condensed by the leafs, mosses, and lichens of this Prehistoric Relict.

[@iah469]

@@Tadeoska: so does it help the dry areas over the other side of the mountains towards the inland? I’d love to hear. I had the privilege of being able visit the region and other parts of the Andes and the Amazon in 1977 with my college biology studies class for about 3 weeks and we studied the contrasting climates of the lush rain forest, then the mountain climate with wind-resistant but still thick flora and thriving fauna and then the surprising desolate desert, so close and yet so far, from the Pacific Ocean waters. People don’t remember that conservationists and environmental concerns have been trying to examine and cure the damage humans have done for many decades now

[@dawnpattison7731]

I live in Canada and so there are many things that are incredibly essential life-saving and life-changing innovations that without KZbin I would have never been made aware of. Thank you LEAF of LIFE FILMS and KZbin.

[@WideWorldofTrains]

I have thought for many years that it would be wonderful if parts of the Sahara could be re greened. This is a great idea and I Hope it can continue and be expanded.

[@tarikrouwassi1852]

Only some part would be great, but if tomorrow the majority of Sahara get re-greened, it would be the begining of the Amazon forest extinction....sand from the Sahara is transported to Amazonia and is a fertilizer for the forest. Without it, the Amazon forest will die.

[@zuubaa239]

Its one of the worst idea

[@Browsinginb]

Isnt fog full of bacteria?

[@Gabcikovo]

​@@zuubaa239no

[@Gabcikovo]

​@@Browsinginbisn't your body?

[@SunRabbit]

This is similar to what they've used in other parts of Africa for millenia. They're called Air Wells and they're just a huge pile of smooth rocks piled on top of an appropriately shaped rock outcrop that channels the water into one spot at its edge. The inner stones are always cooler than the outside ones and any moisture that passes through the rockpile will condense there. Since the rocks are loosely packed the water trickles downward and gets caught by the solid rock underneath it for use.

[@ThePaulv12]

Cheers for posting that. Very interesting. I'm off to check out Air Wells.

[@hawkeye-vv4kb]

@@ThePaulv12 Please post your finding!

[@jhde9067]

@@hawkeye-vv4kb yes, please do!

[@HepCatJack]

Something similar was used in Theodosia and re-discovered by Friedrich Zibold there is information on it on the Air Well Wikipedia entry

[@ludovicrebouillat3128]

@@jhde9067I found that one kzbin.info/www/bejne/jl7WnJiBft2Zorc

[@chrisb9319]

Funny thing is: If trees and bushes were there, they would act the same way as the nets and also catch a lot of the fog. Since all of them are gone, they have to be replaced with man-made solutions.

[@saggyai7950]

That makes sense. Hopefully when more moisture and water is caught and retained in the regions where these nets are, hopefully they will act as a foundation to better the environment for trees and plants to grow, so that we wont need these nets anymore

[@jerrywhere86193]

Trees would have helped to put water into the ground keeping the salt water out of the aquifer. Willow Trees would probably grow there and help bring back the soil as well. Sorry I am a huge fan of how water gets into the ground. Plant life and how the ground filters through everything to get into the ground. I have studied it for years and to me. Short term this is a good idea. But they should have and should still invest into forest restoration. There is no way to fix the brackish water aquifer. But it would help other parts of their troubles.

[@terrancewilliams9965]

Man I tell you.... the answer is so simple and cheaper to implement but man just want to show how smart them be. Trees Don't take a 100 years to grow a forest tree will take about 5 years to reach a stage of maturity then can grow for past 100 if left alone

[@tracesprite6078]

Many places are re-greening these days.

[@ginonunes843]

Willows shouldn't be used in the desert might aswell use native trees

[@glendagraves1637]

I'm so proud of the people who put this project together and of your channel for sharing it. There is hope in the world as long as we have creative, industrious, caring people. Thank you.

[@matthewsjohn8463]

Thank you so much. This is a kind of people we need in this world

[@jcam783]

This is amazing and life changing for all the people living in those regions . So happy to see this kind of technology in that area . It's a reminder of just how important water is to us all .

[@thomasjust2663]

Not really, these things have existed for decades in several regions

[@luisalfonsoguajardoalvarez480]

@@thomasjust2663 in the desert of Atacama Chile this is have been done since 1800s, the fog is not called fog over there, its called "camanchaca", if you go near it at night you get as soaking wet as if you jumped in a pool.

[@WhiteDragon689]

In the Novels of Dune, they did this to collect water from the desert. That was back in 1965. That was 57 years ago.

[@vertecies]

We need si-fi novel about catching water vapor from try climate. Morning moisture gets stuck on grass or other try climate plants. Interesting how sea goes to desert instantly no transient spaces. In South Americas there are these huge natural caves under land, these holes crumble from top and get filled with rain water.

[@TheSchiffReport]

These mesh should be available on the markets for all interested to buy...I myself want it so badly for my property in the Middle Atlas Mountains in the north of Morocco ...we have quite good amount of fog and very little rain ....

[@davidndavidn2222222]

Couldn't you just catch the fog better with some tarpaulin sheets or something and take them down in the wind? Most businesses these days don't care so much if you could do it cheaper and easier yourself... they just want to make money! eg.I use one or two sheets of kitchen roll in my basic £8 supermarket home water filter instead of charcoal.It works much much better for much longer than their rip off carbon filters and I save £4-£8 per month!! They/msm wouldn't ever tell you about this.Try it yourself and don't ever drink unfiltered water again. Please answer why not.

[@davidndavidn2222222]

Or what about vertically bound string, or plastic washing line wire? That always seems to hold/collect loads of droplets.

[@priscillaroberts7945]

Iv'e got some old net curtains that could do the job. I heard of this on the east side of the Andes a while ago.

[@hnskyo9251]

This is available in the Market, they were using it in many southamerican countries for at least the past 30 years if not more.

[@generbasa909]

@@priscillaroberts7945 Ed

[@jailcatjones3250]

When I lived in the Sonora desert in Arizona we dug holes, place bowls in them and used plastic wrap and tarps to collect water from the condensation. By day it's one of the hottest and driest places on earth and by night it could get freezing cold to the point you can see your breath.

[@OmmerSyssel]

Impressive, living in a extreme environment without knowing about something called a thermometer ... 👀🙈

[@mattchilds4149]

I’d love to know more about this process as I just bought property in AZ in dry area

[@williamolliges2622]

This method pulls moisture out of the ground, not the air.

[@Gabcikovo]

​@@williamolliges2622water is everywhere (still). One can use several methods to collect it. From air, fog, as much as from the ground, if there's no well nor stream nor river to make the region flourish

[@Gabcikovo]

Also remember baobab collects and stores the water within during the monsoon rains of abundance and then, in the times of dryness, lives off its rich inner reservoirs and feeds other who die due to no water nor nutrition

[@Emansmus109]

When we devote our minds to assisting others, humanity is truly magnificent.

[@gangleweed]

In the mid 60's I lived in Namibia on the Skeleton coast and every evening the mist rolls in from the sea and goes out again the following morning......the coast and surrounding area is bone dry but a system like this to collect the mist water would turn it into a productive area.

[@GjaP_242]

5:32

[@markdavidson1835]

Get on it dude!

[@oftin_wong]

Define productive based on some collected mist ?

[@weatherloops]

I love when i see my beautiful country succeeding 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

[@skylinecreations.1634]

Science can bring miracles, turn deserts to green forests. Feel happy how this technique of water production is working and helping people to live. Such great projects are required.

[@theprisonerofzenda2862]

🎉 These efforts are a blessing for our entire world. Keep on doing your good work.

[@trading_HT]

FREE and CLEAN water for EVERY1 🙏🏼♥️🌍✨

[@edwardfinholdt3146]

Incredible work. Rich information that should be spread out all over the world!!!

[@thisbushnell2012]

I first learned about the harvest nets decades ago and expected this to come to pass. The idea was the result of studying a Sahara beetle that harvests its daily needs on a unique spiky carapace which dew condenses upon and channels to the beetles mouth. Peru was developing nets years ago. The advances are amazing and encouraging.

[@andyroubik5760]

I believe it was a beetle from the Namibian desert.

[@thisbushnell2012]

@@andyroubik5760 could well have been. The information came to me decades ago.

[@natashadickson4819]

Thank you for posting this. 🙂

[@hav1byte]

wow, that's just incredible...hope it continues to expand, would make significant changes to many...

[@percreig]

Overpopulation will be a huge problem.

[@alanwayte432]

@@percreig actually the world is due to suffer from depopulation over next 200 years,,,,

[@SWR112]

@@percreig Population has been on a massive decline it just looks like it because we now all live next to each other. Populations are in free fall.

[@rickrandom6734]

@@SWR112 No. Read statistics. Population is declining only in some developed countries. Population of Earth is increasing with about 80 million more people every year.

[@somethingorother9263]

Or it's going to dry out the air so plants and animals who depend on it will fie.

[@happy17761492]

I am thrilled to see that change is coming to such places. It makes my heart sing with joy. I hope and pray that many parts of this world that suffer for a lack of fresh and clean water get this new technology.

[@SirenaSpades]

It makes your heart sing??? Really? How about TREES?? Natural fog nets.

[@rocoe9019]

@@SirenaSpades who are you to question what gives people joy ! Must be hard walking with all that pretentiousness weighing you down!

[@linobenetti6578]

...prometheus....you were a true pioneer....you gave us the use of fire ..... we are on our own now ...we ll master the art of water making

[@Gabcikovo]

​@@SirenaSpadesget water, trees will grow, f00l

[@vaggeliss2010]

The fact that fog net water harvesting is being implemented on a large scale is the best news I've read in days! Nice contribution to scientific literacy! Many thanks! Some comments are also very informative! Thanks too!

[@daisyy99]

Ingenious use of the fog nets. I loved seeing the gardens villagers grew.

[@pkbrown58]

Promising news! Thank you and keep spreading the word!

[@mohannair5671]

Reassuring and inspiring!!!!

[@gv8001]

Thanks for sharing this inspirational message!

[@TeweldeberhanTzeggai-Amenay]

Fantastic news! Thank you!

[@RobCummings]

It's a great idea, but it may be limited to a zone close to the coast. You wouldn't see much fog past 50 km inland. Like the west coast of Chile, the west coast of Maroc has consistent onshore winds, blowing over a cold ocean -- ideal conditions for fog generation. I've also seen fog-catchers shaped like 12-foot-high beehives, constructed out of brick and breezeblock, with large cisterns below the hive. That might be cheaper to build than the plastic nets.

[@illadelagos8770]

The thing is, the greener the coast is, the more the transpiration from the trees and plants contributes to clouds and a little bit more rain inland.

[@halnelson5936]

And also it makes more water for the wadis who begin on the eastern slopes who irrigate the inland desert

[@leendertwassenaar1934]

That is why trees are so important!

[@flounder2129]

I enjoyed this video greatly. Very interesting, such a simple concept, it looked to be rather inexpensive at the onset and I would think much less for upkeep. Looks like a win-win. I’m gonna try it in the back yard.

[@MuhammadYusuf-ni3cn]

Thank you for Sharing

[@lenux21]

dont have a water shortage where i live but this is a really cool idea especially in the mountains where it get very foggy would love to see this used more widely around the world

[@marklinsdell7527]

Finally. I've been waiting on this for years

[@tessariles4488]

Thank you for sharing.

[@joemason9187]

Absolutely mint video

[@katherinemahon9471]

A wonderful account of a working solution not another problem with no solution. Uplifting for me!!!

[@Janepint]

That is wonderful. I hope the idea continues to expand in similar areas.

[@OmmerSyssel]

Try relate to reality.. Why do you think Morocco is so poor and inefficient that they it can't even fix running water in their mud huts? Ever heard of something called Islam, and how it hinders any necessary development? 👀😴 🐖💨🧕🏽💩 🤣

[@nolhoutman]

thank you !

[@Ongi59]

THANK YOU

[@rockyraccoon8270]

Wow cool so good to hear a positive message. People working with nature not trying to fight it for the good of mankind.

[@originalloverman]

Amazing this is the first I’ve ever heard of such projects.

[@citylotgardening6171]

Great video thanks for sharing

[@garybriggs5829]

This should be done in our southern deserts in US!

[@Hari-pi2tx]

Wonderful ❤️ life giving video - Thank you

[@CollectiveConsciousness1111]

Brilliant content, thanks for sharing 💚🌍

[@markaralvin7919]

Hello Catherine

[@SamsungSamsung-ph9ln]

Wonderful creative work

[@AngelShona1]

Amazing. saving lives as well. Fantastic. Simple and affective. xxx Keep up great work. xx

[@joshdenton611]

that is genious. good stuff!

[@benoitbach6317]

great video. I would have loved a small description of the process of capturing water from mesh but I could imagined that as the process is fairly simple but it feel just lacking for me. and I presume the visualization isn't that difficult to show.

[@markfaz8689]

Amazing 👍 Great video

[@edwardanthony7283]

Fantastic idea.

[@Ben_The_First]

Impressive, just impressive

[@Nizar37814]

I’m proud of the development of my country Kingdom of Morocco 🇲🇦

[@bhushanganthade8442]

How is life in Morocco

[@sequoiapark4506]

Through Western technology.

[@denhaag8455]

@@sequoiapark4506 its not westerns or eastern the basic started with the first humans so if you want to go on that tour its african technoligy. And besides the western technologie brought more damage to the earth and its inhabitants so dont be so proud of your technologie.

[@Rebelconformist82]

@@sequoiapark4506 yeah, so ?

[@ThomasMehiar]

Excellent!

[@goldahashemzukhn-viren8523]

Amazing!

[@summerhilldavid]

I proposed this method for reforestation of the hills of Lanzarote 30 years ago. My scheme was accepted but unfortunately some incompetents took over who excluded me and paid themselves well for a failed project. I still have hopes, the site is perfect....

[@haniffmohamoodally]

All the best David for your foresight and initiatives

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thats sad, hope someone tries again one day

[@KJSvitko]

Rain water collection systems should be a common part of any home or business building.

[@RegenerativeMojave]

Shit, I'd go as far as say they should be beyond common and written into law. Capture rainfall in tanks and our soils.

[@curiousnomadic]

Look up Yacouba Sawadogo. He's teaching modern humans the old ways and it is working.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

We made a video about it yacouba actually, you can find it in our other Sahara video and in the playlist in our description

[@KJSvitko]

@@Moses_VII Why pay for water when you can collect it and save money on utility bills.

[@RegenerativeMojave]

@@Moses_VII Everywhere. Preparedness is better than regret.

[@francisdalapo5770]

Wonderful continue the good works.

[@matthewyaron5827]

Very cool!

[@mermage_]

I think San diego could definitely implement this. Ive grown up here; theres barely any rain per year but it gets very foggy because of the ocean

[@donaldkasper8346]

Ca Coastal Commission with screw that project into the ground, enviros will sue over migrating birds and butterflies, and it will go nowhere for decades. There is a reason why these projects are implemented in the third world but never the United States.

[@1locust1]

Fog point Vodka, San Francisco.

[@SS-yj2le]

The problem is that the amount of fog has decreased as well. Even the extremely foggy San Francisco only gets 1/3 of the fog it normally gets due to climate change causing the water to get warmer.

[@DeirdreSM]

Also Orange County and even LA. In fact, the fog continues all the way north along most of the California coast.

[@benghazi4216]

@@SS-yj2le That is just an argument for going all out on this tech. If the fog is decreasing, the little rain you get is also decreasing. And water is already scarce.

[@RuleofFive]

Amazing ideas. Thanks for producing this. Its refreshing hearing a positive story about what can be done sustainably when our media in the US just talks about the problems of climate change and none of the solutions. We have serious water problems in the US midwest (our farming area) and the southwest.

[@EwaldDieser]

Great project!

[@copic8241]

This is fantastic!

[@johnfischer1298]

Thank you very much for this proof of concept. Me and my brother had this exact idea. I’m glad to see it can be done in the driest of locations. Me and my brother are starting a project for regreening the western United States. Since this is where I live. I’d love to implement low tech systems such as this

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Probably worth getting in contact with the company, the Western USA water table is drying up so probably need more solutions not only nets but ways to recharge the aquifers just with using permaculture techniques

[@samlebon9884]

Maybe you could found some open source technology you could implement on your own. It's not really high tech after all. Check universities web sites, for instance Good luck to both of you.

[@Gustav4]

Hey John, your project sounds interesting, would like to hear more.

[@c-light7624]

That’s great and I’d love to follow your work. Do you have a channel, organization, or website?

[@ZenEndurance]

My brother and I

[@MichaelCarter]

Great idea

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Agree we need more innovations in water harvesting

[@sharonannrees2824]

I’ve heard of this method! It’s wonderful to see them cooperate with nature!

[@chrispraz877]

Brilliant!!

[@azrealscythe7299]

Nice one

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Definately great to see water harvesting in the desert

[@user-zh5jo4vh4o]

It's great to see your film about collect water at morroco, I also know that some peru n chilean aboriginee collect water by erect a plastic net with same way .These kind of water collecting method should be widely encouraged to other places.

[@domingodeanda233]

That was pretty damn good, thanks

[@JJ-wj6un]

AMAZING & FANTASTIC

[@rumiwani9743]

Extremely innovative ❤️

[@trading_HT]

We love this content!!! Thank you planet for everything we have 🌏🌎🌍♥️✨

[@curiousnomadic]

What about Mars?!!!!!!!! *wheeze*

[@geralddavies2333]

Thank GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE?

[@Alorio-Gori]

This is actually quite great. Thanks to the Dr 👏

[@southasiannature9200]

Nice project

[@ednelson60]

Desejo sucesso e que o povo dessa área possa ter uma vida digna e com muita água.

[@dardar1862]

We have strung shade screens for our garden to reduce evaporation, the bonus is that they capture fog and give it to the soil🤗 Excellent source of water, if fog is in the area.🙏

[@raykeller6693]

Beautiful story…right action! Thanks

[@KoenBlank]

This was something described in Science Fiction book Dune from 1965. While the desert planet is way dryer than in this video I always wondered how well such a technique would work in real life. Amazing to find out it does!

[@deborahwallace9801]

Those big snake things came out of the sand i remember

[@Einwetok]

Passive air wells on a massive scale could work. IIRC the movie showed the tech to be underground. There's also some correlation with how you can make ice in the desert, and cool air by passive heat pumps.

[@earthling_za]

@@deborahwallace9801Giant Sand Worms. It's an amazing series of novels. Highly recommend you give it a try if you're into Science Fiction.

[@Noqtis]

@@earthling_za Is it Science Fiction though? or spoilers of the future LUL

[@dunruden9720]

As I recall, the trick in Dune was to get the excess water from stillsuits, rendered bodies and plant material etc., underground to the seitches (underground lakes), before it evaporated. Another thing I've always found strange is that, here in Australia, we wash our cars and sprinkle our crops with treated drinking water. Quantum attitude shift required, no?

[@skizztrizz4453]

You deserve way more subs.🤔🤔👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯🗽🗽

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thanks 😊

[@aegrotattoo9018]

This is a brilliant idea. Thanks for the eye-opener :)

[@dawnpattison7731]

Hello. I had never heard of this technology/method of water collection. It is incredible. Congratulations on developing this innovative technology and adapting, adjusting and improving it as needed along the way. IMPRESSIVE.

[@iah469]

This reminds me of the 1950’s French short story THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES. It was made into an Oscar winning animated feature in the 1980’s and Christopher Plummer narrated. The story was about a single man planting trees in an arid region of France and over 30 some years the whole climate revived with trees, plants, water flow, birds, etc. Very good to do to repair some of the damage we’ve caused. The Sahara wasn’t always a desert

[@iandavies4853]

A great film. We do need to remove the goats. There is a limit though.

[@iah469]

@@iandavies4853: I’m thinking the animals he had were sheep not goats. I have a goat farm and they are a lot of work, and even they can over graze the pastures and kill young trees, so giving the land a break from them was probably a wise thing for the time.

[@jenv9782]

Thank you so much for your wonderful video! We here in California could definitely use something similar. There is abundant fog on the coast around San Francisco, Oakland, Point Reyes, and Monterrey, for example. I don't know how much water this would provide, but definitely something for our California leaders to investigate.

[@Bob-dz6rr]

It's up to all of us. We need to take the initiative.😊

[@markdavidson1835]

Yes finally something useful for a problem!

[@Oniphius1]

Don't just stop there, go up the coast and run an Aqueduct down.

[@buggyridge]

Spot on Jen! Was just going to write something similar. That fog could amount to inches of much need water. not provided by rainfall. I've seen it so thick around Sacramento, one cannot drive safely in it.

[@alfredgeorge317]

Jen...excellent...I lived in Pacific Grove for 23 years...fog...fog...fog...more fog...

[@hadandawiya7776]

Fantastic

[@jessicaaguirre1229]

I love it I hope they continue to do this great work

[@jakemoeller7850]

There are desert beetles that crawl to the tops of dunes, position themselves with heads down, abdomens up in order to capture some of this mist. Small drops of water roll down their bodies to their mouths. Fascinating! 🐞 🐞 🐞

[@Einwetok]

They already copied that tech into modern fog nets.

[@kfl611]

They have nets called beetle nets. Not sure if they got the idea of the shape of the nets from the beetles or not.

[@nibiruresearch]

Thank you for this video. It gives hope for many dry areas. The only bottle neck is to unite people to invest in such a system. I know that there are also windmills that extract water from the air.

[@GjaP_242]

1:21

[@jeffg6900]

Great story!

[@bombdottcom111]

Brilliant!

[@discordanceok]

It would be good if you outlined the principal behind what makes the water collection possible and what conditions are needed for this system. Either way, thank you for the video!

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Great suggestion! water collection is possible because the environment experiences fog, pretty sure that is mentioned tho :)

[@markfarrelly925]

This was done in Chile 40 years ago, a project to supply water to a village. It fell into disrepair after the project ended unfortunately. But great idea, this is why I studied agriculture engineering.

[@diosamurcielaga9418]

what do you mean by "it fell into disrepair" exactly? I am curious. Greetings from Mexico

[@jordillach3222]

Yes, I visited the fishing cove of Chungungo, Coquimbo region in Chile, in the early 1980s where the "atrapanieblas" were giving water to the village by collecting it from the "camanchaca" (indigenous word for thick fog). Those days it was a novelty. 🇨🇱

[@jordillach3222]

@@plus_2853 Really? I didn't know that professor Carlos Espinosa was a Moroccan, his name sounds very Spanish to me.

[@GamingStarslegends01]

But this is upgraded version of it according to winds of this area of sahara

[@hangzhang6390]

t is a great idea! Please install it all over the world! Catch water vapor in the air could greatly reduce green house gas (water is a much bigger portion of green house gas in our climate systems compare to CO2). We solved global warming/climate change issue and water shortage issue at the same time. Submit it to UN let lots of UN politicians lost jobs:)

[@lilifang1940]

Very happy to look at your video. very happy for the people in the desert.thank you. congratulations .

[@einsteines]

Liked and subscribed. Excellent video.

[@tonytaskforce3465]

This is what we should be spending our money on, not bombs, guns and politicians.

[@victoryfirst2878]

The ancient people of the sahara used a type of netting which causes small droplets attract each other to turn it into pure water. That is right out of history. So nice to see someone used his God given brain to make this happen. WATER IS LIFE, LIFE IS WATER.

[@goheine]

Indeed

[@victoryfirst2878]

@@goheine Old technology seems to come back in spells. But it does come back.

[@nos9784]

What did they use for the nets? Someone else mentioned "air wells", which seems to accomplish the same with piled rock and a channel in a rock floor.

[@victoryfirst2878]

@@nos9784 The gary matter says, the people of old used waven reeds like sails to make this happen. Grooved rocks or grooved wood for channels for proper directions. Hope that helps. Good day NOS.

[@rabokarabekian409]

Wasn't this putative God the one who made the area so dry? All deities are praised for fixing problems they made. Ever hear of "the problem of evil". People are pretty good at inventing all sorts of things on their own.

[@subrotomitra]

Wonderful!!!!

[@el-sig2249]

Amazing! Very inspiring.