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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.
@@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.
@@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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@@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.
@@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
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.
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 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.
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.
@@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
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
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.
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 ....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
It feels weird that humans no longer do what they did for thousands of years. If the area you live in no longer has water or food, you move on to an area that does have it.
@@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.
This is the beautiful thing about technology. It allows people more time to focus on economic growth and not just staying alive. Thank Jesus for technology.
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!
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.
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....
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
This is wonderful and I’m so happy for all the people that need it, that now have it. May they all prosper and live free for their children and themselves. Thank GOD that this new technology is available to them and future generations.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
This Genius deserves the support of the World. With the right engineering and commitment there is no reason why the greatest portion of this Desert cannot become a Garden of life for those inhabitants who deserve a life equal to ours. The Countries at odds with each other should assemble a Summit to put aside differences at least until this Oasis is developed. The Earth itself would benefit from the change in atmosphere. Fresh Water could be piped from the Poles. This at present is a small project needing a Mega Project. Let’s stop shipping arms and save lives. Prace
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.
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.🙏
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!
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.
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?
How about the impact further in the desert? If they expand the collection area wouldnt that significantly decrease the amount of precipitation further in land?
That's an interesting question, I guess you are right in the short run, like changing the course of a river would move the water to another place, but in the long run they will have green areas. I've seen other videos on UA-cam were reforesting a place makes the place more capable of holding water. I can not think of a place that wouldn't benefit of having more trees and green areas.
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! 🐞 🐞 🐞
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.
@@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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
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. 🇨🇱
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:)
personally I once made an application to produce trees and fresh water in Morocco, but we were told a big fat no. you have to stay 5 km from the coastline as that is a protected area for birds. turning salt water into fresh water is not that difficult, but if the government does not want to help, we have started helping other countries. not everyone wants to reason his country. glad to see something positive for humans and animals
@@anasabou1904 you can also draw a lot of energy from wind without spending a lot of money, in think it's bad that we can't help each other, I'll do anything to help the planet, but our governments want money and that's where it ends. I have had small windmills on my roof for years and a little bit of electricity from the grid. or they'll put us out of power completely. but I am provided. we are so many that run everything on electricity that our planet can never continue to carry this. hopefully one day we will get a yes to help your country too .Insha'Allah
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? 👀😴 🐖💨🧕🏽💩 🤣
That is just amazing. What a Blessing for these people. I hope that people living in drought regions of the world will have the correct climate to duplicate this effort. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I first saw this about redwoods - they do this naturally from the mists coming in on the Californian coasts to the extent that it would be dripping from the leaves and down the trunk. I would expect that they would pull in enough water for other plants around them as well. What they would need to do, is to look for native species that do this, plant them, protect them from firewood harvesting and see what happens next. We could imaging that if all the redwoods got taken out, that the ecosystem would dry out - not because of climate change per se, but that a keystone species was taken out. Did this happen in some places? And can this damage be reversed.
Researchers at The Australian national university has just published a paper showing that thinning out of forrests creates a drying effect and therefore is a major creator of bush or wildfire. Actual proven science. Intact Forrests naturally keep themselves cool and damp. The science is very important to show the culling or thinning out of trees argument by forrestry industry is what makes fire worse, and is used heavily in the US, Australia and around the world. I do think you could then argue that the damaged environment would then also add to climate change and block more efficient carbon sinks. I do believe it is what you are eluding to. I hope the science paper gets more attention. It made national radio news here a month ago or so.
I live in the Santa Cruz mountains among the redwoods for many years and they do pull an amazing amount of moisture out of the moist ocean breezes that blow inward from the Pacific. However all the species dependent on the redwoods would die out were that air to be replaced with a dry wind like that that blows across the Sahara because it has so little water that even if it was 100% drained of the little moisture that it carries it's wouldn't be enough to keep grass alive.
Evaporation rates are much higher and faster on deforested land. The land requires the plants and trees to hold the existing moisture like a sponge. Not only living things require water, the land itself will crack and blow away without it
Except for clear cutting redwoods don't seem to get removed, even forest fires won't kill them. There's no problem regrowing redwoods if you removed all of them, the anti logging activists are fighting to preserve old growth redwoods not worried that they will go extinct. Redwoods can grow in dry climates if they have water.
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.
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!
Love the video. However, I'm not convinced. What is the cost per litre of this water? If the cost is too high then it's just another good idea that will end up going nowhere. Maybe the cost is too high now but it can be reduced over time. Can the channel provide a view on this?
@dražen g You're probably right that most of the cost is upfront. However, you will be aware that the video is very specific on some of the numbers (e.g. volume of water per 'fog day' per square metre). So why doesn't it tell you the cost? The project must know the numbers but they choose not to share them. Not even approximate, or 'best case' numbers. That makes me very suspicous that the costs are way too high and that you would get better results by simply spending the same money on something more mundane like fixing leakes in the existing water system.
Thank you so much for making this excellent video and posting it here for everyone to see! This is an important aspect of human existence, our ability to improve our environment. We all need to be aware of the fact that there is a choice to be made every day of our existence. We can choose to improve our world or we can choose to be a destructive force. It brings a sense of great joy and satisfaction to choose to be one of those that makes things better.
This was really cool! It is really just expanding on what plants evolved to do that live in these fog belts, which are usually covered in trichomes that help catch fog. I cannot imagine that installing these systems would be all that expensive either and that they could have a relatively long useful life.
Evolution is total bullshit!!! They have never found one transitional fossil and there would be billions and billions of them if evillution actually happened!!!
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.
Those ariel shots clearly shows how sahara was once lush green forest with mountains and rivers. Some catastrophic events caused the entire Sahara area flooded and washed away by Sea water..., incredible...
It would be interesting to know which plants spring up on their own in desert areas once they get water. Are there unusual species just under the sand waiting for water?
@@Einwetok just this year I soaked and planted chili pepper seeds I saved from plants I grew in 2013. I got close to 100% germination rate. They had been through heat and sun exposure and were seriously shriveled. Nature has a way of surprising us with its tenacious vivacity.
In the old days, like biblical era they did the same with sheep fleece. They laid the out at night and squeezed the water out in the morning. In some historical accounts the did this when there was drought to water their trees and what crops they could keep alive.
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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.
@@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.
@@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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Many places are re-greening these days.
Willows shouldn't be used in the desert might aswell use native trees
Oh man how GREAT it feels to see some constructive development occurring on some surface of this planet.
It's like a breath of fresh air
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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.
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.
Its one of the worst idea
Isnt fog full of bacteria?
@@zuubaa239no
@@Browsinginbisn't your body?
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.
Thank you so much. This is a kind of people we need in this world
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.
I think it could definately be made in different parts of the world 💧 🌎
thanks man, greeting from Morocco
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
@@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.
@@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
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.
Cheers for posting that. Very interesting. I'm off to check out Air Wells.
@@ThePaulv12 Please post your finding!
@@hawkeye-vv4kb yes, please do!
Something similar was used in Theodosia and re-discovered by Friedrich Zibold there is information on it on the Air Well Wikipedia entry
@@jhde9067I found that one ua-cam.com/video/X-skeKIxflU/v-deo.html
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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 .
Not really, these things have existed for decades in several regions
@@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.
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.
Impressive, living in a extreme environment without knowing about something called a thermometer ... 👀🙈
I’d love to know more about this process as I just bought property in AZ in dry area
This method pulls moisture out of the ground, not the air.
@@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
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
In the Novels of Dune, they did this to collect water from the desert. That was back in 1965. That was 57 years ago.
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.
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 ....
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.
Or what about vertically bound string, or plastic washing line wire? That always seems to hold/collect loads of droplets.
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.
This is available in the Market, they were using it in many southamerican countries for at least the past 30 years if not more.
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I love when i see my beautiful country succeeding 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦
This is a real humanity. Making a project beneficial to human kind.
FREE and CLEAN water for EVERY1 🙏🏼♥️🌍✨
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.
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Get on it dude!
Define productive based on some collected mist ?
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.
It makes your heart sing??? Really? How about TREES?? Natural fog nets.
@@SirenaSpades who are you to question what gives people joy ! Must be hard walking with all that pretentiousness weighing you down!
...prometheus....you were a true pioneer....you gave us the use of fire
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we are on our own now ...we ll master the art of water making
@@SirenaSpadesget water, trees will grow, f00l
🎉 These efforts are a blessing for our entire world. Keep on doing your good work.
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.
Incredible work. Rich information that should be spread out all over the world!!!
Reassuring and inspiring!!!!
That is why trees are so important!
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.
I believe it was a beetle from the Namibian desert.
@@andyroubik5760 could well have been. The information came to me decades ago.
Again, wonderful technology for creating water for life in deserts. I like this really.
wow, that's just incredible...hope it continues to expand, would make significant changes to many...
Overpopulation will be a huge problem.
@@percreig actually the world is due to suffer from depopulation over next 200 years,,,,
@@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.
@@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.
Or it's going to dry out the air so plants and animals who depend on it will fie.
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.
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.
And also it makes more water for the wadis who begin on the eastern slopes who irrigate the inland desert
Wonderful ❤️ life giving video - Thank you
This is what we should be spending our money on, not bombs, guns and politicians.
Without those bombs and guns? Most of the world would be run by cartels and warlords.
This should be done in our southern deserts in US!
Wow cool so good to hear a positive message. People working with nature not trying to fight it for the good of mankind.
A wonderful account of a working solution not another problem with no solution. Uplifting for me!!!
Promising news! Thank you and keep spreading the word!
Wow that’s beautiful I wish all the best to people 🇵🇸❤️🕊
Respect and love from Jerusalem the capital of Palestine 🇵🇸
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It feels weird that humans no longer do what they did for thousands of years. If the area you live in no longer has water or food, you move on to an area that does have it.
I’m proud of the development of my country Kingdom of Morocco 🇲🇦
How is life in Morocco
Through Western technology.
@@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.
@@sequoiapark4506 yeah, so ?
Impressive, just impressive
Finally.
I've been waiting on this for years
This is the beautiful thing about technology. It allows people more time to focus on economic growth and not just staying alive. Thank Jesus for technology.
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!
You deserve way more subs.🤔🤔👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯🗽🗽
Thanks 😊
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.
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....
All the best David for your foresight and initiatives
Thats sad, hope someone tries again one day
So the lesson we get is if you want your men to quit their jobs in town and return home, just have water available. What a genius idea!!
Fantastic news! Thank you!
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
We love this content!!! Thank you planet for everything we have 🌏🌎🌍♥️✨
What about Mars?!!!!!!!! *wheeze*
Thank GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE?
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
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
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.
Hey John, your project sounds interesting, would like to hear more.
That’s great and I’d love to follow your work. Do you have a channel, organization, or website?
My brother and I
Very happy to look at your video. very happy for the people in the desert.thank you. congratulations .
Ingenious use of the fog nets. I loved seeing the gardens villagers grew.
that is genious. good stuff!
Rain water collection systems should be a common part of any home or business building.
Shit, I'd go as far as say they should be beyond common and written into law. Capture rainfall in tanks and our soils.
Look up Yacouba Sawadogo. He's teaching modern humans the old ways and it is working.
We made a video about it yacouba actually, you can find it in our other Sahara video and in the playlist in our description
@@موسى_7 Why pay for water when you can collect it and save money on utility bills.
@@موسى_7 Everywhere. Preparedness is better than regret.
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.
It's up to all of us. We need to take the initiative.😊
Yes finally something useful for a problem!
Don't just stop there, go up the coast and run an Aqueduct down.
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.
Jen...excellent...I lived in Pacific Grove for 23 years...fog...fog...fog...more fog...
This is wonderful and I’m so happy for all the people that need it, that now have it. May they all prosper and live free for their children and themselves. Thank GOD that this new technology is available to them and future generations.
Nice video Keep up the good work❤
Brilliant content, thanks for sharing 💚🌍
Hello Catherine
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.
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
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.
Fog point Vodka, San Francisco.
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.
Also Orange County and even LA. In fact, the fog continues all the way north along most of the California coast.
@@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.
I really enjoyed this video.
This Genius deserves the support of the World. With the right engineering and commitment there is no reason why the greatest portion of this Desert cannot become a Garden
of life for those inhabitants who deserve a life equal to ours. The Countries at odds with each other should assemble a Summit to put aside differences at least until this Oasis is developed. The Earth itself would benefit from the change in atmosphere. Fresh Water could be piped from the Poles. This at present is a small project needing a Mega Project. Let’s stop shipping arms and save lives.
Prace
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.
Desejo sucesso e que o povo dessa área possa ter uma vida digna e com muita água.
Great idea
Agree we need more innovations in water harvesting
Wonderful continue the good works.
That is a very good use of human technology helping the world keep it up
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.🙏
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!
Those big snake things came out of the sand i remember
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.
@@deborahwallace9801Giant Sand Worms. It's an amazing series of novels. Highly recommend you give it a try if you're into Science Fiction.
@@earthling_za Is it Science Fiction though? or spoilers of the future LUL
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?
Super interesting! I wonder if there are any issues with micro plastics from water coming off the rubber and plastic nets over long periods of time
Good point!
What a great idea. Water is a valuble recource.Everywhere on earth. Best wishes from Germany
Hallelujah we are not running out of water anymore. What gets me is they knew this centuries ago and nobody publicized it before.
How about the impact further in the desert? If they expand the collection area wouldnt that significantly decrease the amount of precipitation further in land?
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That's an interesting question, I guess you are right in the short run, like changing the course of a river would move the water to another place, but in the long run they will have green areas. I've seen other videos on UA-cam were reforesting a place makes the place more capable of holding water. I can not think of a place that wouldn't benefit of having more trees and green areas.
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! 🐞 🐞 🐞
They already copied that tech into modern fog nets.
They have nets called beetle nets. Not sure if they got the idea of the shape of the nets from the beetles or not.
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.
Indeed
@@goheine Old technology seems to come back in spells. But it does come back.
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.
@@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.
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.
Ein großes Lob und Danke an die Wasserstiftung 👍
What a blessing of this technology for those people! Water is life!
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
A great film.
We do need to remove the goats.
There is a limit though.
@@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.
This beyond magical. More of these need to be built
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.
what do you mean by "it fell into disrepair" exactly? I am curious. Greetings from Mexico
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. 🇨🇱
@@plus_2853 Really? I didn't know that professor Carlos Espinosa was a Moroccan, his name sounds very Spanish to me.
But this is upgraded version of it according to winds of this area of sahara
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:)
I’ve heard of this method! It’s wonderful to see them cooperate with nature!
personally I once made an application to produce trees and fresh water in Morocco, but we were told a big fat no. you have to stay 5 km from the coastline as that is a protected area for birds. turning salt water into fresh water is not that difficult, but if the government does not want to help, we have started helping other countries. not everyone wants to reason his country. glad to see something positive for humans and animals
salt water into fresh water is not that difficult, but it needs a lot of energy, morocco is an energy poor country
@@anasabou1904 yes and with a lot of sun, nowadays everything runs on solar panels 🤲
@@ackeethree solar is still the most expensive energy sources on a kwh basis, which is what matters most in desalination
@@anasabou1904 you can also draw a lot of energy from wind without spending a lot of money, in think it's bad that we can't help each other, I'll do anything to help the planet, but our governments want money and that's where it ends. I have had small windmills on my roof for years and a little bit of electricity from the grid. or they'll put us out of power completely. but I am provided. we are so many that run everything on electricity that our planet can never continue to carry this. hopefully one day we will get a yes to help your country too .Insha'Allah
That is wonderful. I hope the idea continues to expand in similar areas.
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? 👀😴
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That is just amazing. What a Blessing for these people. I hope that people living in drought regions of the world will have the correct climate to duplicate this effort. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I first saw this about redwoods - they do this naturally from the mists coming in on the Californian coasts to the extent that it would be dripping from the leaves and down the trunk. I would expect that they would pull in enough water for other plants around them as well.
What they would need to do, is to look for native species that do this, plant them, protect them from firewood harvesting and see what happens next. We could imaging that if all the redwoods got taken out, that the ecosystem would dry out - not because of climate change per se, but that a keystone species was taken out.
Did this happen in some places? And can this damage be reversed.
Researchers at The Australian national university has just published a paper showing that thinning out of forrests creates a drying effect and therefore is a major creator of bush or wildfire.
Actual proven science.
Intact Forrests naturally keep themselves cool and damp.
The science is very important to show the culling or thinning out of trees argument by forrestry industry is what makes fire worse, and is used heavily in the US, Australia and around the world.
I do think you could then argue that the damaged environment would then also add to climate change and block more efficient carbon sinks.
I do believe it is what you are eluding to.
I hope the science paper gets more attention.
It made national radio news here a month ago or so.
I live in the Santa Cruz mountains among the redwoods for many years and they do pull an amazing amount of moisture out of the moist ocean breezes that blow inward from the Pacific. However all the species dependent on the redwoods would die out were that air to be replaced with a dry wind like that that blows across the Sahara because it has so little water that even if it was 100% drained of the little moisture that it carries it's wouldn't be enough to keep grass alive.
Evaporation rates are much higher and faster on deforested land. The land requires the plants and trees to hold the existing moisture like a sponge. Not only living things require water, the land itself will crack and blow away without it
@@iah469 That doesn't change the fact that no matter how many redwoods you plant in the Sahara none will grow.
Except for clear cutting redwoods don't seem to get removed, even forest fires won't kill them. There's no problem regrowing redwoods if you removed all of them, the anti logging activists are fighting to preserve old growth redwoods not worried that they will go extinct. Redwoods can grow in dry climates if they have water.
When mankind put their energy towards good, miracles happen...
This incredible....
I think this should be available to anyone needing water, a great invention that could help millions. GOD bless all who need help with anything.
AMEN
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.
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!
Great suggestion! water collection is possible because the environment experiences fog, pretty sure that is mentioned tho :)
Love the video. However, I'm not convinced. What is the cost per litre of this water? If the cost is too high then it's just another good idea that will end up going nowhere. Maybe the cost is too high now but it can be reduced over time. Can the channel provide a view on this?
@dražen g You're probably right that most of the cost is upfront.
However, you will be aware that the video is very specific on some of the numbers (e.g. volume of water per 'fog day' per square metre). So why doesn't it tell you the cost? The project must know the numbers but they choose not to share them. Not even approximate, or 'best case' numbers.
That makes me very suspicous that the costs are way too high and that you would get better results by simply spending the same money on something more mundane like fixing leakes in the existing water system.
.... use the nets to water the newly planted vegetation until they are established.
Immediate and long term solutions (sorry!) in one go.
Why not?
Fabulous. Life-changing.
Wow! Look what can happen!
…when we work, and love, each other and our beautiful life giving land together ❤️🙏 It is possible.
Thank you so much for making this excellent video and posting it here for everyone to see! This is an important aspect of human existence, our ability to improve our environment. We all need to be aware of the fact that there is a choice to be made every day of our existence. We can choose to improve our world or we can choose to be a destructive force. It brings a sense of great joy and satisfaction to choose to be one of those that makes things better.
This was really cool! It is really just expanding on what plants evolved to do that live in these fog belts, which are usually covered in trichomes that help catch fog. I cannot imagine that installing these systems would be all that expensive either and that they could have a relatively long useful life.
Evolution is total bullshit!!!
They have never found one transitional fossil and there would be billions and billions of them if evillution actually happened!!!
Gets really foggy here in up north Alaska...super foggy . Zero visibility kind a fog
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.
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Blessed people that brings knowledge and prosperity to the world !
Those ariel shots clearly shows how sahara was once lush green forest with mountains and rivers. Some catastrophic events caused the entire Sahara area flooded and washed away by Sea water..., incredible...
Very good! This should be done all over the desert to turn it green...!!!
It would be interesting to know which plants spring up on their own in desert areas once they get water. Are there unusual species just under the sand waiting for water?
Desert truffles
Seed beds last roughly 5 years, longer with desert adapted plants.
@@Einwetok just this year I soaked and planted chili pepper seeds I saved from plants I grew in 2013. I got close to 100% germination rate. They had been through heat and sun exposure and were seriously shriveled. Nature has a way of surprising us with its tenacious vivacity.
@@tagladyify "desert adapted"
@@Einwetok I’m not disagreeing with you in any way, just saying that nature often surprises us. I really enjoy many of those surprises.
In the old days, like biblical era they did the same with sheep fleece. They laid the out at night and squeezed the water out in the morning. In some historical accounts the did this when there was drought to water their trees and what crops they could keep alive.
Thank you great to learn something new
This is such a good thing. Water is at the root of all things. We began there, it began the cycle and continues today. Water makes life, keeps it.