Chile - Chanavaya 2007
Fog Collection Evaluation Project

Current Status
Retired Professor, and FogQuest member, Horacio Larrain Barros, who was instrumental in starting the Falda Verde project a number of years ago, has now agreed to help the fishing village of Chanavaya, not far from Iquique, in the arid Atacama Desert of northern Chile. This will be a small project for perhaps 15 fishermen and their families, to augment their water supplies in order to grow gardens. It will be challenging to move the water through a pipeline of 3 km or so down the coastal cliffs, but being near to the long-term fog research station at Alto Patache, we expect that ample fog water is present to help the community. We will begin with an evaluation of fog water production rates in 2007 using Standard Fog Collectors (SFCs). If the water production is good, we will proceed with the community to develop an operational project.

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