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In 2005, another installation of panels of 3 square metres (32 sq ft) producing 5 litres (1.1 imp gal; 1.3 US gal) per square meter per day.
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areas. The Camanchacas Project installed 50 large fog-collecting nets on a mountain ridge, which capture some 2% of the water in the fog.
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netting to capture the water droplets in the fog to produce running water for villages in these otherwise
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cloud banks that form on the Chilean coast, by the Earth's driest desert, the
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where these cloud banks form, the camanchaca is a dense
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Marine stratocumulus cloud banks that form in Chile
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Camanchaca (fungus)

Atacama desert

Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park
marine stratocumulus
Atacama Desert
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cacimbo
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fog collection
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desert
"The Driest Place on Earth"
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