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There has always been a to-and-fro between the Malthusian, limits-to-growth school of thought that sees the growth in human population and its increasing consumption as out-st*ipping the carrying capacity of the planet, and the innovation and technology-focused thinking that emphasizes the ability of new, often unforeseen technologies erasing those limits. It is with this in mind that I read a recent story about plans to harvest drinking water from the mists and fogs that roll in from the Los Tomes is an agricultural co-operative, one of 178 in Chile’s Coquimbo region. Ninete*n comuneros try to grow wheat and raise sheep and goats on 2,800 hectares (7,000 acres) of semi-arid scrubland. A decade-long drought has made that harder. Hilltop springs where the an*mals once drank have dried up. As herds shrank and yields fell, fa*mers’ children moved away to take jobs in cities or at copper Hope for Los Tomes comes in the form of three 60-square-metre (646-square-foot) nets stretched between poles on a ridge above the community. These atrapanieblas capture droplets from the fog that rolls in from the sea 4km (2.5 miles) away. They trickle down to a pipe, which channels the water to two troughs at the foot of the ridge, from which livestock drink. The banner-like nets can harvest 650 litres (140 gallons) of water a day. “We’re content: it’s produced the results we wanted,” says José Ossandón, the child’s Chile has been investigating fog capture since the 1950s. The dense fog that arises from the Humboldt current, called the camanchaca, can be harvested with the help of a coastal mountain range and strong winds. Earlier attempts to turn the mist into usable water failed. In 1990 fog nets at Chungungo, a fishing village north of Los Tomes, captured 8,000 litres a day. Villagers argued about how to share Climate change, which is expected to decrease rainfall in the region, has spurred a new quest for unconventional sources of water. The project at Los Tomes is part of an attempt to revive fog capture by encouraging better governance. A government development fund has put