Andean Historical Intervention
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Harvest Air's Water in Arid Places
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Email to a Friend July 9, 2009--When dense fog sweeps in from the Pacific Ocean, special nets on a hillside near SHARE Lima, Peru, catch the moisture and provide Digg precious water to an area that gets very little StumbleUpon rainfall--about half an inch (1.5 centimeters) a year. Reddit The nets stand perpendicular to the prevailing wind, which blows fog into the coarse, woven plastic mesh. From there, drops of fog-water fall into gutters that carry the water to collection tanks.
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--happening today in Lima Since 2006 the nets--built by German conservationists Kai Tiedemann and Anne Lummerich--have helped provide the village of Bellavista, 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Lima, with hundreds of gallons of water each day during the foggy winter months of June to November.
Beetle's Shell Offers Clues to Harvesting Water in the Desert
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Text: Fog Catchers Bring Water to Parched Villages
--no rain; 90% humidity; several months of fog —Photograph by Anne Lummerich
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Ayapec (weather god) common temple relief
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Andean Historical Intervention
earl schrader
Peru
Hyper-Arid Desert, W of Andeans, Peru 2000 years ago
North Coast of
Hyper
Arid
Desert
Huaca De Sol and Luna Ancient Moche Empire
Andean Historical Intervention
earl schrader
Very Advanced Culture powerful people; culturally advance as the Greeks mountain-sized cities
hidden
hyper
pottery
Irrigation
skeletons of ritual fighting to death in rain saturated land thousands of inhabitants thrived in a most hostile environment
unknown
still used
arid
desert
farming
elaborate mud brick aqueducts irragation systems; 10s of Kms; Mystery: Suddenly abonadoned ~650 AD (CE) after hundreds of years thriving in city of 10,000
recently discovered ritual burial
massive urban
Religious
metallurgy
ceremonial
ornamentation