In the fall of 2022, Alto Hospicio’s mayor, Ferreira, acknowledged the unsolved problem but blamed clothing manufacturers, citing a “lack of global awareness of ethical responsibility ...

Alto Hospicio, situated at an altitude of 500 meters, has experienced rapid growth to approximately 110,000 inhabitants. Of the many residents living in unregistered areas lacking infrastructure ...

But at least 39,000 metric tons that cannot be sold end up at clandestine dumps in the desert, such as the one near Alto Hospicio. Read more. Disrupting climate change: ...

In the zones immediately around Alto Hospicio, fog collectors would yield an estimated average of 2.5 liters of water per square meter of mesh during the fog season, according to the study.

In a 100 sq km area surrounding Alto Hospicio, between 0.2 and five litres of fog water could be harvested per square metre each day, the team discovered. However, ...

Researchers tested this concept in Alto Hospicio, Chile, a city on the edge of the Atacama Desert, the driest non-polar region on the planet. With less than one millimeter of rainfall per year, ...

Alto Hospicio’s total consumption requirements are about 300,000 liters weekly, an amount that would require 17,000 square meters of similar mesh to collect.

It focuses on Alto Hospicio, a city of over 140,000 people in the Atacama Desert in Chile. This is one of the driest deserts in the world, so it's a prime spot to test out fog collection.