Alto Hospicio, situated at an altitude of 500 meters, has experienced rapid growth to approximately 110,000 inhabitants. Of the many residents living in unregistered areas lacking infrastructure ...

Alto Hospicio’s total consumption requirements are about 300,000 liters weekly, an amount that would require 17,000 square meters of similar mesh to collect.

ALTO HOSPICIO, Chile—An eerie site awaits those driving past this northern city toward a sprawl of the Atacama Desert.

In the zones immediately around Alto Hospicio, fog collectors would yield an estimated average of 2.5 liters of water per square meter of mesh during the fog season, according to the study.

But at least 39,000 metric tons that cannot be sold end up at clandestine dumps in the desert, such as the one near Alto Hospicio. Read more. Disrupting climate change: ...

Piles of clothes dumped in the desert in the La Pampa sector of Alto Hospicio can be seen on Nov. 11, 2022. AFP via Getty Images What a waste. A satellite image taken above Chile’s Atacama ...

In a 100 sq km area surrounding Alto Hospicio, between 0.2 and five litres of fog water could be harvested per square metre each day, the team discovered. However, ...

While this may seem like a reliable water source, the aquifers at Alto Hospicio haven’t been recharged in over 10,000 years. Related Story. Scientists Find Huge Aquifer in Cascade Mountains; ...

Researchers tested this concept in Alto Hospicio, Chile, a city on the edge of the Atacama Desert, the driest non-polar region on the planet. With less than one millimeter of rainfall per year, ...