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Memberships for 2010!
Membership fees are a valuable source of income for FogQuest and help us accomplish our water projects. The rates have stayed the same for 2010, $35.00 Canadian for those in Canada, and $40.00 US for those outside Canada. There are discounts for students. Please renew your membership now or consider becoming a new member. We are looking forward to having you join our efforts to provide clean water in arid regions of the developing world.
Conference July 2010
The 5th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew will be held in Muenster, Germany in late July. More information can be found here. Melissa Rosato will be giving a paper on the Tojquia water project (see here) that she co-authored with Fernanda Rojas and Robert Schemenauer. The title of the paper is:
Robert Schemenauer will also give an invited overview paper on fog collection at the conference.
Publication May 2010
An 1800-word invited contribution was written for the newsletter of the International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance http://www.irha-h2o.org/ by Robert Schemenauer. The title is: Complementary Aspects of Fog, Rain and Dew Collection.
It can be found here on the FogQuest website.
Guatemala – Expanded Project March 2010
Two wonderful FogQuest volunteers, Melissa Rosato from Canada, and Fernanda Rojas from Chile, were in Tojquia from 11 to 21 February to do maintenance on the existing fog-water installation and to work with the villagers to install four more family fog collectors. There are now 30 functional Large Fog Collectors in Tojquia. This is the largest project in the world. Please see the story in the Current Projects section.
Ethiopia - New Project January 2010
Volunteers for the new fog collection project in Ethiopia arrived on 11 January and will stay for three months. Please see the story in the Current Projects section.
Tech Museum Permanent Gallery
September 2009
The Tech Museum in San Jose, California, opened a new permanent gallery called "Technology benefiting humanity" on 1 September 2009. It includes the great work of some of The Tech Laureates over the years. Included among the 11 works chosen to be presented is FogQuest. Indeed, it is positioned near the beginning of the exhibition. Please see the entry in the Awards & Honours section of our website for more information.
New Book Contribution - August 2009
A new book contribution by Robert S. Schemenauer was published this month in a sophmore university text, by Thomas V. Cech, in the USA. The citation is:
Schemenauer, R.S.: Fog harvesting, pp. 41-46. Book contribution in Principles of Water Resources, History, Development, Management, and Policy, 3rd Edition, by Thomas V. Cech, John Wiley & Sons, USA, 2010, pp. 546.
New Fog Collection Project in Peru – July 2009
The National Geographic Society in the USA has sponsored the construction of fog collectors for a community near Lima, Peru. The work was guided by two people from Germany and uses the fog collector design originally developed in Chile in the 1980s and utilized by FogQuest since its first projects in 2001. Read more here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090709-fog-catchers-peru-water-missions.html
NEW WEBSITE
The website that you see here has been completely rebuilt and updated. This version was activated in August 2009 and replaces one that served us well for many years. We would like to offer our sincere appreciation to Bob Crawford for building and maintaining our previous site and to Tony Makepeace for his work on the new site.
There is always work to do and one of the tasks we have remaining is to provide a Spanish version of the site, as we had before. We will continue to develop the site as we have time and resources.
We would like to acknowledge and thank the International Development Research Centre (Ottawa, Canada) for support that made this redesigned website possible.
