Chile communities defy the desert by capturing increasingly scarce water

Mongabay
Apr 4, 2023, 10:04 am124 pts
In the middle of an increasingly arid landscape, where Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest in the world, keeps expanding southward, a small forest less than a third the size of New York’s Central Park is irrigated by water from fog, harvested by the rural community of Peña Blanca. Each day, they capture…

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