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lima, 29 jun (EFE).-the fog that settles every morning winter about Lima now serves to irrigate the crops in its hills desert thanks to the”atrapanieblas”, a system that collects dew and compresses it to accumulate daily between 5 and 15 litres of water.

without resorting to high technology, the”fog catchers”uses two poles that hold a mesh with small holes facing direction to fog, a storage tank and a filter to decontaminate water, explained to Efe” movement Peruvians without water “, Paolo Cruz. Member

this Association promotes the use of”atrapanieblas”and started a project for installation in different points in Lima two years ago, but it has not been until now that he has found the financing to locate twenty of the gadgets in the neighborhood of Los Tunales, in Lima’s Villa Maria del Triunfo district.

“Our mission is this Brown space turns green,”announced Cruz, who directs the installation of these systems with the inhabitants of the area in which” condensed water droplets descend on the mesh until falling into a gutter that leads her to the tank, where a clean filter “.

until now residents of Los Tunales saw that the water for their crops came in the form of fog, but in the same way the wind took him is without leaving a drop in its sandy hills, which have proved suitable for the new system.

there, the fog that comes from the sea builds up in the early hours of the morning and late in the night, and becomes especially dense in winter, during the months of July and August, although in summer it is almost non-existent and the hot sun dries the Earth impassive.

before This “the waterless” also projected the construction of two tanks 300 liters of capacity to alleviate the shortage of summer fog, on a site where so far only found water in the tankers that transport it to sell it in the area.

Cruz pointed out that the savings for a family that has a “atrapanieblas” is considerable, since one of these systems has a cost of between 1,000 and 5,000 dollars”, when it is usual that each household spent between 150 and 225 dollars a month to buy water for their daily use and agricultural.

” with “atrapanieblas” these people don’t have to spend so much money for a little water because the useful life of the mesh that is (high density polyethylene) Raschel fabric, ranges between five and seven years, and you will get a water which can have various uses “, although it is not suitable for human consumption, said.

well Das Grün der Vegetation bis jetzt trockenen Land Sprossen und schafft eine Oase der vielfältigen Pflanzen, die nicht brauchen Wasser in Hülle und Fülle, die für die Selbstversorgung der Familien dienen und helfen, erstellen Sie eine neue wirtschaftliche Aktivität in der Gegend.

organisch wachsen Thunfisch (oder Stachelige Birne) Namen geben, an den Ort, aber auch Kartoffeln, Kürbis, Bananenstauden, (Aloe-Vera-Pflanzen), Bauern für die Herstellung von Produkten wie Shampoo und Taras, “die helfen, den Nebel zu fangen, weil Wasser ist auch in ihren Blättern kondensiert” exportiert.

gibt es auch Platz für die Bepflanzung der Flor de Amancaes, ein typischer Maiglöckchen von der Rimac, die zwischen den Felsen mit Feuchtigkeit aus dem Nebel und dem fließt “ist vom Aussterben bedroht, so genannte Cruz.

zwar”kein Wasser”in Lima von ihrer Mission begonnen haben” Greenup und ” Reforest”, Ihr Ziel ist es, 200″ Nebel-Fänger zu platzieren “an anderen Regionen des Landes, wie südliche Arequipa und Ica, wo Wasserstress ist auch sehr ausgeprägt ist, neben der Wiederaufforstung von Tausend Hektar in den Anden Ayacucho. verpflichten und

Fernando Gimeno

Foto ohne Dativ Menschen durch Platzieren”Nebel Catcher”in der Lomas de Lima. WireImage /