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4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG, FOG COLLECTION AND DEW Site and date To Be Determined February 2005 / Issue 15

The scientific committee for the conference is presently considering a number of possibilities for the site of s e

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o l this year for the conference to be held in 2007. If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact b a P FogQuest or Professor Detlev Möller at [email protected] . An SFC installed in Eritrea in January, 2005. A N E W S L E T T E R F O R M E M B E R S A N D S U P P O R T E R S O F F O G Q U E S T NOTE: You can still purchase copies of the Proceedings Volume of the 2001 Fog Conference through FogQuest. It is an important addition to a personal or institutional library. $200 CAD per year and allows corporations to assist NEWS California coast. Matthieu with projects that particularly interest them or their Germain and students staff. For example, Komex International Ltd., in The German water foundation, Wasserstiftung, from the Ecole Nationale Calgary, Canada, made a generous donation to has announced that FogQuest will be awarded Supérieure de Géologie in provide new mesh for the large fog collectors in their Hundertwasser Award for 2005. This is a Nancy, France, will tour Yemen. To all our sponsors and to all the members Adjusting the trough, Cerro Talinay. prestigious award to be presented in Munich late Africa in a non-polluting who have renewed their personal support for 2005, in the year. More details will be available on our car and perhaps stop at we thank you very much. web site as they become available. One of the one or more fog collection n i

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Canada, was chosen as the Agfa International's from FogQuest's first co- H A large effort has been made in the last three

Photographer of the Month in February. Check the op student, Kirsten Tightening the turnbuckles for Greenhouse in the desert at Falda Verde, Chile. It receives water from months to complete a new FogQuest Fog Water the cables, Cerro Talinay. the existing six fog collectors on the cliff above the coast, to grow link http://www.agfanet.com/en/ for more Moran, who is in Ecuador tomatoes for 56 families. Collection Manual. Thanks to the tremendous help information. A Design student from Tel Aviv, on a long tour of South from Margarita Canepa, we are on target to Israel, Alon Gross, recently finished his project on America. She reports that the large fog collectors FogQuest is presently very active and the last year complete the manual by the end of March. Students working at the Cerro Talinay, Chile, fog collection site. "a portable dew and fog collector for camping and are still providing water, after ten years, for the El has seen a significant growth in the number of Margarita is a student from the Geography Institute projects. This is as a result of on-going support from remote use" and submitted his designs to an Crater restaurant at Pululahua. Constantin Editor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in TO CONTACT international design competition, held by the Weinberger, at the Royal Agricultural College, Dr. Robert Schemenauer sponsors, to whom we are very grateful. Santiago. She spent January and February in prestigious Saint-Etienne Metropole, entitled Cirencester, UK, is doing his final dissertation on Environment Canada provides some core funding Toronto working in the FogQuest office in the "Travel in a sustainable world". He learned in fog collection as part of a paper entitled Contributions of short articles, for our office and field activities each year. The mornings and studying English in the afternoons. FogQuest news items and photographs November that he won first prize (Euro 5,000) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) “Appropriate Water Management in Arid and for upcoming issues of the The manual will cover, in detail, the knowledge an invitation to France to receive his award. Papers Semi-arid Developing Countries”. Naomi Newsletter are welcome. in Ottawa has been very supportive of our students needed to both plan fog collection projects and to from the May 18-19 fog-related 2004 National Manning, an elementary school student in They should be sent to: and our publishing of the newsletter. They have construct and install standard fog collectors and Mailing Highway Visibility Conference in Madison, WI, Quesnel, BC, Canada, is doing a science fair project [email protected] assisted and aided FogQuest from the beginning large fog collectors. It is a full-color book that will be or to the address at the end P.O. Box 151 USA, are at http://www.topslab.wisc.edu/ on “What is fog?” Sandra Picard, McGill and are very responsible for its success. There are available for sale as a loose-leaf, printed, product in of this Newsletter. 1054 Centre Street resources/nhvlinks.htm . Jörg Bendix notes that University, Canada, is doing a civil engineering other important sponsors who are listed on the a binder, and also on CD. We plan to periodically the COST Action 722 workshop, related to fog paper on fog collectors. Muriel Rouzic, of the website and I encourage you to visit the site and update and expand the manual by replacing Thornhill, Ontario The Newsletter’s primary modeling and remote sensing, will be held in Bordeaux University 3, France, is making a acknowledge our sponsors when discussing our selected chapters as needed. It will be about 110 purpose is to be a means of L4J 8E5 Canada Larnaca, Cyprus, on 20 May 2005 contribution on fog collection to the project Sequía. projects. Two sponsors have come to the fore in the pages long with about 150 color photos and exchanging information with (http://137.248.191.94/cost/index.html). last year and I wish to mention them specifically. John Ellingson, a chemistry student at Eastern our members. We hope that it diagrams. We are very grateful to IDRC for their Michigan University, Ann Arbor, USA, is working WasserStiftung is a German water foundation based assistance with the production and publication Office Location will also promote better STUDENTS on interactions between aerosols and fog. communications between in Munich. The executive director Kerstin Anker, as costs. If you are interested in ordering a copy, please 6305 Yonge Street, those working on water well as Ernst Frost and other directors and staff, contact the FogQuest office for information. Margarita Canepa, from the Pontifical Catholic Suite 202 projects using fog, rainfall and have not only provided financial support for the University of Chile in Santiago (PUC), Chile, dew collection, and those new projects on Cerro Talinay in Chile, and near Toronto, Ontario completes her two month period as a volunteer in studying the many scientific Asmara in Eritrea, but are excited by the prospects M2M 3X7 Canada the FogQuest office in Toronto, Canada, in early aspects related to these for bettering the lives of people by using fog to atmospheric water sources. March. Virginia Carter and other students did a provide water in arid environments. In the last year The Newsletter is sent three terrific job constructing large fog collectors at the we also have been building good working times a year to members of Email: Cerro Talinay site in Chile, in January. Melissa FogQuest: sustainable water relationships with Rotary International through Rosato from the University of Waterloo, Canada, [email protected] solutions. The current issue is clubs in Southern Ontario, Canada. Gerry Duncan, a will finish her three months of field work on Tel. 1-416 225-7794 available on the web site member of both Rotary and FogQuest, has been Margarita Island, Venezuela, in mid-March. www.FogQuest.org. leading this effort. Clubs have provided support for s e

Fax 1-416 225-9801 Gregory Ruiz, a student of Professor Daniel Information on membership s the Margarita Island project (Venezuela) and for the s O

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FogQuest's major initiatives at the moment are in FogQuest, through its members in Chile, has been able to assist the people who live in two Latin America and in the Middle East and

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successful and the communities of Bellavista and Aeropuerto have worked very hard to o funding has been obtained to expand the existing H maintain the water supply and make use of the water. The place where the water is Six LFCs on the desert ridge above Falda Verde, Chile. array of large fog collectors at Falda Verde. These s

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l they now grow vegetables for the 56 families. FogQuest has raised additional funds, from b a newsletter. The project in Guatemala has been Students working on the fog collection project at Cerro Talinay, Chile. P the Rotary International Mississauga Club, to add five large fog collectors to the six An SFC with water collection container, restructured and is updated on the website. Four Cerro Talinay. already present. Mississauga is a Canadian city near Toronto. new SFCs have been installed at La Ventosa and FOG COLLECTION PROJECT Santa Caterina Ixtuahacan. Also, five SFCs are Cerro Talinay, Chile FALDA VERDE PROJECT DESCRIPTION Submitted by Horacio Larrain now in place and producing fog water, collection

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Venezuela. Ten SFCs are in place in Eritrea as a H large fog collectors (LFCs) were constructed on very dry desert environment where it may not rain at all for several years at a time. At the result of Pablo Osses' field work in January. Chañaral harbour and the Pacific Ocean, five Talinay Mountain, which is about 280 km north end of 1998, a group of fishermen headed by Hugo Streeter asked Dr. Horacio Larrain, in kilometers south of Falda Verde. Initial water production rates look very of Santiago. The work was done under the Iquique, for help to study the fog collection potential on the nearby hills. After two years of promising. In Yemen, our local partner NGOs, direction of Virginia Carter, who is a student of measurements, the fog collectors on the 600 m high cliff above the village were found to under the direction of Matthias Leibbrand, have Pablo Osses. In March the municipality of Canela yield an average of 1.5 liters of fog water per square meter of mesh per day. This yield of replaced the mesh on the large fog collectors will begin work on a pipeline to move the water potable water is low but of tremendous value in the desert. At the foot of the cliff, two with a better quality mesh from a new supplier east to the community of Los Tomes. The water greenhouses and other outbuildings have been erected. The local municipality helped by in Saudi Arabia. As well, we continue to support will initially be used for a garden of olive trees, leveling the terrain and opening a road to the site. The Australian Embassy helped our members who have projects in Colombia, 2 n i

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generate income. An agronomist from the . tanks store the water from the LFCs. The inauguration ceremony was presided over by H FogQuest? Namibia and South Africa. There are possibilities municipality will direct this part of the effort. local authorities and was honoured by the presence of the Australian ambassador. The One of the 5000 L water tanks that receive water for new projects in the Caribbean and these may from the fog collectors, Falda Verde. Initial yield from the LFCs will be about 1000 L village association, formed of 56 local families, nowadays has an 80 m2 greenhouse FogQuest is an be highlighted in future newsletters. per day. This will increase as more LFCs are covered with plastic and another recently completed. There, plants like tomatoes, lettuce innovative, international, constructed. Some photos from the project can be and calabashes have been succesfully harvested. Members of the village association were non-governmental, non- found in this issue of the newsletter. sent to the nearby city of Copiapo to be trained in cultivation techniques under plastic. profit organization, Three harvests can be obtained during a year.

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economically viable use a P P has been done by hand by the fishermen and their families. An of fog, rain and dew as The cloud deck from the Pacific Ocean Two completed LFCs on Cerro Talinay. Four LFCs on Cerro Talinay with the dry desert produces fog on Cerro Talinay. far below. area of land has been transfered by the local municipality, where sustainable water the village plans to establish a small botanical garden for endemic resources for people in HOW CAN YOU HELP? plants, including flowering bushes and annuals. The warm, arid,

arid regions of develop- Please consider taking out a membership in FogQuest. A solid network of members will be our means of coastal climate permits several species of cacti, succulents and ing countries. spreading information on fog collection and generating support that is vital to our operations. The bulbs to be grown. In addition, ecological and environmental annual membership fee of $35 Canadian, or $30 US for those outside of Canada, can be paid by check or education at the city schools can be easily reinforced at this site, by credit card. Corporate membership is $200 CAD. We accept VISA or MasterCard. Students receive a Julio Espinosa (left) and Hugo complementing the students' classroom learning. $5 discount on their membership fee. Donations from both individuals and institutions are encouraged Streeter (right), the leaders of Agrupación Atrapanieblas Atacama, Men from the community of Falda and can be directed for general support or to our projects in Guatemala, Chile, Venezuela and Nepal. at the Falda Verde site. Contact: [email protected] Verde constructing a fog collector.

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