
Turning Vapor Into Drinking Water: Catching Fog in Response to Drought
Two billion people worldwide lack reliable access to clean drinking water, and this film follows engineers and researchers betting on fog nets as part of the answer. On Gran Canaria, the EU-funded Life Nieblas project has installed mesh catchers in the island's north that pull tens of thousands of liters a year out of passing clouds, water now being used to reforest land stripped bare by wildfire. Across the water in Morocco, similar catchers supply villages that have gone months relying on tanker trucks after their pipes ran dry. The film sets these projects against IPCC forecasts that North Africa could lose half its surface water this century, and that three-quarters of Spain is at risk of desertification. Researchers explain the physics of condensation nets on camera, and local residents describe what it means to have water again without waiting for a truck. It is a modest technology treated with appropriate skepticism about its limits, alongside genuine curiosity about how far it can scale.