Water collected from fog could help communities in arid regions

Humans depend on clean water for drinking, cooking, and agriculture, and yet over 800 people lack access to this most fundamental resource, according to the World Health Organization. Access to clean water in arid and desert regions is especially difficult and often requires expensive and burdensome irrigation technology. Two new studies published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society address the desert water problem by looking to the desert ecosystem itself to find out-of-box solutions for collecting clean water. The studies were conducted …