В Чили Атакама, Световната пустиня, отглеждайки марули с мъгла

Chanaral:

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a net to catch drops of moisture from fog.

" We are growing hydroponic lettuce entirely with fog water in the driest desert on the planet, " Orlando Rojas, president of the Atacama Fog Catchers Association, told Reuters near Chanaral in the Atacama, where some areas do not see rainfall for years.

" We have had other crops that have not yielded results, which is why we have tended towards doing lettuce. "

Researchers at the UC Atacama Desert Center are launching an open-access web mapping platform to show the location of the areas with potential for fog-water harvesting in the country, trying to open up these arid areas for cultivation.

" We know its potential and we know it can be an option and a solution for different scales of water needs in different territories where there is significant water scarcity, " said Camilo Del Rio, director of the UC Atacama Desert Center.

Amid barren rocky hills and dry, white sand, the system works by using a mesh suspended between two poles that intercepts the small amount of Влага във въздуха, трансформирайки го в капчици, които се събират и съхраняват в резервоари за вода.

" Ние сме в положение да съберем от 1000 до 1400 литра вода на тези негостоприемни места, където ние явно не сме удобни от природата по други способи ", сподели Роха в район, където лимоновите дървета също порастват от събраната вода. Проект, не сме спряли, тъй като е жизненоважен за човешкото битие. "

Марио Сеговия, също от групата за привличане на мъгла, сподели, че водата, събрана от влага във въздуха, е била чиста.

" реколтата не наподобява неприятна, а супер здравословна храна, чисти хранителни субстанции, които са органични ", сподели той. " They're in a state of water with nutrients, because this fog-catcher water is completely neutral, it has no minerals, no chlorine, nothing. "
 

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