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Water conservation made easy with the latest fog and dew collectors
Jun 27 2008, Nithya N

These strange contraptions are Alon Alex Gross’s fog and dew collectors – designed specifically to collect drinking water in arid and semi-arid regions. The concept of dew collection or fog harvesting is not new – these models are just...

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