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Turning vapor into drinking water – Catching fog in response to drought | DW Documentary

  • July 17, 2024



Turning vapor into drinking water – Catching fog in response to drought | DW Documentary

Turning vapor into drinking water: a bizarre response to the impact of climate change? Or a stroke of genius? It’s hoped that the cloud catchers – nets that fish water out of the air – will provide a solution to water shortages worldwide. But how does it work?

Two billion people across the world lack access to clean drinking water. Whole areas are drying up, while fires are destroying forests and soil. The film portrays people on the Canary Islands in Spain and in Morocco who are meeting the specter of drought with innovative new projects.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that North Africa will lose around 50 per cent of its available surface water this century. The forecasts for Spain are similar. Studies say that 75 per cent of the country is at risk of desertification. In the south of the country, villages already rely on tanker lorries to bring them water when the pipes dry up – for months on end. Research into alternative water sources is of paramount importance, here.

The European Union is funding the “Life Nieblas” project to find out more about the cloud catchers’ potential. In the north of Gran Canaria, researchers have managed to capture tens of thousands of liters of water annually from passing fogs and clouds. The water is being used to reforest a burned-out region on the Canary Island.

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21 comments

  5. Its mostly commercial marketing you see, try to buy nets yourself, extreme expensive. It should be mass produced with free info how it works and in what conditions…. now its just feel good tv made by ARD.

  9. Remember learning about this during geography class in my high school days. I'm a final year engineering student now and this documentary is music to my ears! Definitely sparked a lot of interest from me👏👏💯

  11. Anyway we all don't have such climate but we have humidity in air which can turn into water and it's much easier and we already have all the tools just have to design modifications, but unfortunately may be world curpted business of water want let us have such free water generators, anyway we all see air-condition units and they condense air and take out water if we use those condensers and power them on solar or wind then we can generate much better solutions maybe or may be I m wrong anyway if we all need good weather and rain and plants we have to ask forgiveness from one and only GOD of us all ALLAH Rabul Allamin who created this environment for us and we continously distroying it all so we have to ask forgiveness and give up the things which distroy our environment and do good deeds like one they did in this video by using resources but not damaging the environment then GOD will be pleased and appreciate our efforts and send us rain and make dead lands become alive again insha ALLAH

  15. In the Eua was a man that reinvented a giant dehumidifier to catch water from humidity or this company Watergen USA | Water from Air.

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