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Human-made fog-harvesting sails
August 27, 2021

Nepal, Guatemala, Eritrea. The YouTube video From Thin Air features the FogQuest effort to provide drinking water from fog with manufactured fog-collecting screen sails and gutters below… Efforts are underway to improve the efficiency of…

Passive water harvesting case study
August 3, 2021

Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Native Food Forest. Tucson, Arizona, USA. Latitude 32.2˚N. Elevation 2,555 feet (779 meters). Tucson, Arizona, USA. Average annual precipitation 11 inches (280mm)… Ideally, you plant the rain before you plant your…

Active water harvesting case study

Underwood Family Sonoran Landscape Laboratory. College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA). University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona, USA. Latitude 32.2˚. Elevation 2,555 feet (779 meters). Average annual precipitation 11 inches (280 mm).…

Snow & wind harvesting case study

Snow & wind harvesting case studyLatitude 35˚N. Elevation 6,200 feet (1,890 meters)Moriarty, New Mexico, USAAverage annual rainfall 14 inches (355 mm).Average annual snowfall 25 inches (635 mm) The following is excerpted and adapted…

Fog-harvesting Namibian beetles

Coast of Namibia. Latitude 18˚ 58’S to 16˚ 56’S There are a number of different fog-harvesting beetles such as Stenocara gracilipes in the dry, yet fog-rich, coastal area of Namibia. All the beetles…

Greywater-harvesting case study

Lancaster residence, 4 people, 2 goats, 6 chickens. Tucson, Arizona, USA. Latitude 32.2˚N. Elevation 2,555 feet (779 meters)Average annual precipitation 11 inches (290 mm)… • 1/8-acre property.• See here for a One-Page Place…

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