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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.
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.
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
I live in Canada and so there are many things that are incredibly essential life-saving and life-changing innovations that without RU-vid I would have never been made aware of. Thank you LEAF of LIFE FILMS and RU-vid.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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....
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:)
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
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...
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.🙏
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.
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.
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 RU-vid 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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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? 👀😴 🐖💨🧕🏽💩 🤣
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!
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.
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.
I stayed on the top floor of a hotel sitting on one of the hills in foggy San Francisco, in a corner room giving me windows facing east and north! The windows were so dirty, so covered in irregular dust and dirt patterns I called the desk to inquire about how often they clean the windows. For $600 a night (15 years ago) I kind of thought I might be able to see out my windows at night! They had recently washed the windows! The windows get so dirty from the fog! Seems fog holds and carries plenty of dust and other stuff, and it coveres everything with that mixture leaving the solids when the moisture evaporates! I found if I want to look out the windows at night all I had to do was turn the room lights off. The dust film acted as a exterior window shade reflecting the room's light back into the room. Turning the light off allowed me to see through the layer of dust, so I could see the beautiful night cityscape and boats coming into port from overseas. With the lights off the dust layer disappeared allowing me to get wonderful pictures of a big, bright, full moon rising in the east! Completely unexpected; what a surprise! What a lucky happenstance! If I hadn't been fussing over my dirty windows I would have missed it completely! Some of the best pictures I've ever gotten all due to dirty windows from abundant fog.
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.
They should also dig a 2 acre pond for each village, so they can capture the rain when it does rain. That would allow them to start recharging the ground water.
Swales and ponds could do wonders for this area. It would take a couple of years to see the effect, but vegetation would begin anew, and eventually keep the water flowing.
@@mikekeens9326 Yeah. While 5 inches doesn't sound like much, I imagine with all the dry dirt most of this 5 is itself lost as runoff into uninhabited desert to the south where it evaporates unseen. 5 inches goes a lot farther for a rural and water conscious culture like theirs.
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.
And what will the consequences of this be? How will this affect other areas? Now that the water no longer get to its natural destination, will it cause drought other places?
That was exactly what I was thinking. If the area is naturally a desert then it shouldn't be turned into anything else, in my opinion... let nature be natural!
Brilliant! I've actually thought this could be done, but had no idea how someone would start doing it. I remember in primary school (UK) when a teacher asked, what is everywhere? One boy said water, sir! The teacher said, correct! From that time we see it form in the morning due, the ice-cold food and drinks taken out of the fridge, condensation, etc. So it's good to see it being utilised.
The number of locations that have the right kind of weather for this is very limited. It's not an applicable solution for most locations, especially not for the Sahara Desert. A bit oversold.
Until that limit is reached, it's applicable "there". That's a lot better and more sensible/sustainable/life-supporting than the drought alternative currently existing. We can use what we know/have where possible until we find/create another way. Or give up, suffer and do nothing. Praise worthy! #Encouragement #ClimateChangeSolutions
A lot of places could use that with high humidity and no rain. I used to live in a Redwood forest and it captures it's water from fog. Should be put into use everywhere.
Places in western coastal areas where thermal inversion and upwelling currents generate fog. Morocco, Canary islands, Peru, California, Namibia. I can't think of any other places. You can't do it in places like dubai or saudi arabia because there's no fog.
@@Jin88866 California would benefit a shit ton from permaculture methods that reforest their foggy areas and then the trees then act as fog nets themselves. Combining fog nets with treed swales could have immense benefits in coastal California and the mountains. The best part is evaporated water on these windward slopes can be "recycled" as the orographic lift and nets/trees would cause condensation of the water that was just captured and used.
I would expect them to be safe for now. I mean they looked pretty new. But i dont know if they would be safe, after years or decades, of being broken down by sunlight.
