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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 het groen van de vegetatie spruiten tot nu arid land en maakt u een oase van gevarieerde planten die niet hoeven water in overvloed, die dienen voor het levensonderhoud van gezinnen en bijdragen tot het scheppen van een nieuwe economische activiteit in het gebied.

tonijn (of prickly pear), geeft naam aan de plaats, maar ook aardappelen, pompoen, bananenbomen, organisch groeien (Aloë vera planten), boeren geëxporteerd voor de productie van producten zoals shampoo en taras, “welke hulp aan de mist overlapt omdat water is ook verkorte in zijn bladeren”.

Er is ook plaats voor opplant de flor de Amancaes, een typische Lily of the Valley van de Rimac die tussen de rotsen met vocht uit de mist en dat stroomt “is in gevaar van uitsterven, volgens genoteerde Cruz.

Hoewel het”geen water”zijn begonnen hun missie in Lima van” greenup en ” reforest”uw doel is om 200″ mist catchers “op andere punten en regio’s van het land, zoals Zuid-Arequipa en Ica, waar waterstress ook zeer uitgesproken, in aanvulling is op het ondernemen van herbebossing van duizend hectare in de Andes Ayacucho.

Fernando Gimeno

foto zonder dating mensen door het plaatsen van”mist catchers”in de lomas de Lima. WireImage /