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Cape Verde: Can Fog Harvesting Solve Water Shortages?

Posted by Guest Author on January 10, 2009
Filed in: Africa, Business & Technology, Cape Verde

Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) features fog water harvesting in the West African archipelago (cluster islands) of Cape Verde: “When the rainy season ends in Cape Verde hundreds of families tap into another source of water: fog. Farmers track fog as their ancestors followed rain clouds, monitoring 15 double-sided nets that rise into the mountains.”


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