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Water Innovations: Chile's CamanchacaSpace Shuttle Photograph of stratocumulus clouds over the mountains of Norte ChicoFor several decades Caleta Chungungo was supplied with fresh water from a nearby iron mine. After themine closed the village depended on tank trucks for a limited supply of poor quality fresh water. Thepeople of Caleta Chungungo lived with a chronic water shortage for about twenty years.Fog collection system at El TofoIn 1987 a fog collecting system was installed on the slopes of the coastal mountains near the ab<strong>and</strong>onediron mine at El Tofo. The system consists of large nets arrayed across the slopes perpendicular to thel<strong>and</strong>ward flow of the camanchaca. The fog condenses on the mesh <strong>and</strong> the water drips into a trough. Thecollected water flows from the trough down through a pipe to a reservoir near Caleta Chungungo, aboutfour miles away.http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/dryl<strong>and</strong>s/camanchaca.html (2 of 3) [1/13/2005 12:49:18 PM]

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