Moroccan villagers harvest fog for water supply

A Moroccan man inspects fog fences in a hamlet on the outskirts of the coastal city of Sidi Ifni. -AFP

SIDI IFNI, Morocco: Green technology to turn fog into fresh water straight from the tap has put an end to exhausting daily treks to distant wells by village women in southwest Morocco.

Families in five highland Berber communities have begun to benefit from “fog harvesting”, a technique devised in Chile two decades ago and since taken up in countries from Peru to Namibia and South Africa.