Fog Catcher

The endless waste of sand and sun can leave you wishing for a cold drink, and yet too often your fantasies remain buried underneath the hard earth. However, today you are hopeful, as you flip the switch on your new fog catcher the parched belly inside you grumbles with an excitement you have not felt since your last trip to see the springtime river far far away. The most expensive and last resort measures of getting water to a community such as desalination, water transfers are called “backstop” water sources. Fog catchers are the most extreme of backstop methods. It is possible in some particular regions to harvest water from fog using nets. The water from the nets drips into a tube. The tubes from several nets lead to a holding tank. Using this method, small communities on the edge of deserts can get water for drinking, gardening, showering and clothes washing. Critics say that fog catchers work in theory but have not succeeded as well in practice. This is due to the high expense of the nets and pipe, high maintenance and low quality water. The term Peak Water has been put forward as a concept to help understand growing constraints on the availability, quality, and use of freshwater resources. There is concern that the state of peak water is being approached in many areas around the world. Some areas are suffering from peak renewable water, where entire renewable flows are being consumed for human use.