How This Incredible Invention Is Making Water In The Desert For Free!

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The Sahara is one of the most extreme and harshest environments on earth. Its the largest hot desert in the world spanning across 11 million km2 covering a greater surface than the Australian continent.

It has a vast topographical diversity from altitudes below sea level to mountains of 3,000 m resulting in a varied climate.

On the edge of the Sahara in South Western Morocco, the Anti-Atlas mountains receive less than 5.2 inches of rainfall a year, barely 10 percent of the global average, which makes this one of the driest place in morocco and is prone to severe droughts.

In this region 60% of people do not have running water in their homes, and the water may not be safe for drinking.

The lack of water and severe drought have made farming unpredictable, as a result men are forced to search for work in the cities, whilst women remain in the villages and walk for 3 miles a day to wells to access safe drinking water. Unfortunately these Wells are now drying up because ground water levels are plummeting

Currently around 40 percent of the world’s population faces water shortages. That includes some two billion without safe drinking water, despite the fact the planet is covered by 70% water bodies
Only 3% of the world’s water is actually freshwater and two-thirds of this is unavailable for us to access because it is tucked away in frozen glaciers.

However a new innovative technology is turning water scarcity around bringing safe drinking water to the Sahara region in south west Morocco.

In this video we will show you how water abundance is being created in the desert, using the largest water capturing system of its kind, to provide safe drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people, in 16 remote villages and how they have managed to irrigate agricultural fields, turning desertified land back into a farmland oasis.

T hanks to Aissa Derhem the president of the Moroccan NGO Dar Si Hmad, fertility in the western Sahara is being restored.

Aissa Derhem is mathematician and businessman whose parents were originally from Mount Boutmezguida in the anti atlas mountains near the coastal town of Sidi Ifni. where the slopes are covered in mist on average 130 days a year. Despite the lack of rain Aissa Derhem knew that he could create water from the fog.

Whilst living in Canada in the 1980s Aissa Derhem was studying for his PhD.
He learned about fog collection in Chile’s Atacama Desert one of the first projects in the world to collect water from nets. However it would have to be using slightly new technology that could withstand the strong winds that come off the Atlantic oceans

The German Water Foundation known as Wasserstiftung, have created a new innovative technology known as Aqualonis, formally known as CloudFisher, to catch safe drinking water with fog nets that can withstand 120km and have higher water yields than other types of fog nets.

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LeafofLifeWorld

Oh man how GREAT it feels to see some constructive development occurring on some surface of this planet.

ПлатонУченик

This is similar to what they've used in other parts of Africa for millenia. They're called Air Wells and they're just a huge pile of smooth rocks piled on top of an appropriately shaped rock outcrop that channels the water into one spot at its edge. The inner stones are always cooler than the outside ones and any moisture that passes through the rockpile will condense there. Since the rocks are loosely packed the water trickles downward and gets caught by the solid rock underneath it for use.

SunRabbit

I have thought for many years that it would be wonderful if parts of the Sahara could be re greened. This is a great idea and I Hope it can continue and be expanded.

WideWorldofTrains

I live in Canada and so there are many things that are incredibly essential life-saving and life-changing innovations that without Youtube I would have never been made aware of. Thank you LEAF of LIFE FILMS and Youtube.

dawnpattison

I'm so proud of the people who put this project together and of your channel for sharing it. There is hope in the world as long as we have creative, industrious, caring people. Thank you.

glendagraves

when I was a kid in 2003 I saw on the Chilean public TV how Hugo Streeter Cortez make his firsts "Atrapanieblas" that we call in Spanish, after that, the idea of making this all around the world has accompanied me. It is an honor to watch how Moroccan people is doing it, greeting from Southern Chile.

Tadeoska

These mesh should be available on the markets for all interested to buy...I myself want it so badly for my property in the Middle Atlas Mountains in the north of Morocco ...we have quite good amount of fog and very little rain ....

TheSchiffReport

Funny thing is: If trees and bushes were there, they would act the same way as the nets and also catch a lot of the fog. Since all of them are gone, they have to be replaced with man-made solutions.

chrisb

This is amazing and life changing for all the people living in those regions . So happy to see this kind of technology in that area . It's a reminder of just how important water is to us all .

jcam

When I lived in the Sonora desert in Arizona we dug holes, place bowls in them and used plastic wrap and tarps to collect water from the condensation.
By day it's one of the hottest and driest places on earth and by night it could get freezing cold to the point you can see your breath.

jailcatjones

In the mid 60's I lived in Namibia on the Skeleton coast and every evening the mist rolls in from the sea and goes out again the following coast and surrounding area is bone dry but a system like this to collect the mist water would turn it into a productive area.

gangleweed