Los atrapanieblas del Santuario Padre Hurtado y sus proyecciones en el combate a la desertificación

Abstract

During 1999 a fog collection system was constructed to give water to the Sanctuary Padre Hurtado. It is located in km 275 of the Panamerican Highway in the Canela Commune. This system was financed by the Baehr Family, of British Columbia, Canada. The system has 10 large fog collectors of 400 m2 of Raschel mesh to collect an average of 2.000 liters of fog water a day. This amount of water is used for bathrooms, garden irrigation, domestic uses and there is a remaining volume that will be used in farming activities such as cattle and vegetables in greenhouses. The idea is to disseminate the technology by a training program.