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December 2012 – Thanks for your support!

During this season of giving, FogQuest is very appreciative of donations we receive to help with our water projects. Our sincere thanks to all the individuals involved. We would like to especially acknowledge the following groups who have donated recently:

  • Rotary Club of Kamloops Aurora Centennial,
    Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada $5000
  • St. Francis Catholic High School students,
    St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada $5000
  • Barriere Secondary School students,
    Barriere, British Columbia, Canada $550
  • Huron Park Italo Canadian Seniors Club
    Mississauga, Ontario, Canada $1000
  • Rotary Club of Kamloops Hybrid Interact,
    Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada $1000

Each and every donation helps provide clean water to those in need. No donation is too small. Get your company, service club, family and friends on board and be a part of FogQuest’s work today.

 

Become a  FogQuest member for 2013 or make a donation today and help us change the world.

Colombia, Latest News, Projects, Video

Colombia – October 2012

Evaluation Project Update

Together with our NGO partner in Colombia, Fundación Occidente Colombiano (FUNCO), FogQuest continues to develop an operational project at site KM 18.

Positive water collection rates from non-standard SFCs are coupled with much enthusiasm. The students at the local school Francisco Jose Lloreda Mera (Francisco Miranda campus) focused on their experiences with fog collection as their final term projects. These student presentations have served to heighten local and regional knowledge about fog collection technology. Local NGOs, university and government stakeholders are hearing from the youth all about the untapped possibilities in their backyards. Catch a glimpse of this emerging project through the short video produced by FUNCO. ¡Disfrútalo! Enjoy!

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Evaluation Project Update – Mount Kilimanjaro – October 2012

As reported in August 2011, there are now Standard Fog Collectors (SFCs) installed on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. This was a joint effort led by our partner ped-world in Germany. FogQuest staff have not been to the field location. There is a tremendous need for fresh water for guides, rescue personnel and visitors on the upper part of the mountain. Up to now the water has to be carried 8 km to these high elevation huts. FogQuest is helping to determine whether the frequent fog found there can be a viable source of fresh water.

SFC at 4750 m

The altitude at Barafu is 4600 m and at Kibo-Hut 4750 m. Both are on Kibo-Saddle, the last camp before you reach the peak (5895m). Some data were collected after the initial installation to show that the SFC at Barafu was not properly located. The SFC at Kibo was reported by Bernhard Kueppers of ped-world to have produced large amounts of water for several months but there were problems with how the mesh was installed. The ped-world staff can only reach the sites perhaps once a year and are re-establishing the sites with plans to obtain better data sets.

Africa, Projects, Tanzania

New Project – Tanzania – Fall 2012

Over the last year construction of Large Fog Collectors has proceeded in central Tanzania near Mbulu. The FogQuest fog collection technology is being used by a German NGO, ped-world, to assist villages and schools with water supplies. To date eight large fog collectors (LFCs) have been built at three sites.

LFCs in Tanzania

We don’t have specific water production figures but the results are encouraging and both the number of LFCs and the number of sites will be increased with time. This is an example of the expanding application of our technology. Staff of ped-world spent time at the field site in Morocco learning FogQuest construction techniques, gaining access to the FogQuest manual and other documents, and were sent mesh to use in the LFCs. In addition we have had numerous discussions regarding the construction of fog collectors and operation of field projects; however, the actual field work in Tanzania is funded by ped-world as part of their wider efforts in the country and is under the direction of ped-world.

Peru, Projects

Latest News – October 2012

New Evaluation Project in Peru

 Professor Ben Spencer from the University of Washington (Architecture/Landscape Architecture) and Professor Susan Bolton (Environmental and Forest Sciences) have been working in the community of Lomas de Zapallal, Lima, Peru for the past few years. As part of the US EPA’s People Planet and Prosperity (P3) student competition they have now, with the assistance of FogQuest, started a fog collection evaluation project at Lomas de Zapallal. Five modified Standard Fog Collectors were installed in September 2012.

Evaluating fog potential in Lomas de Zapallal, Lima

This location is quite close to the Cerro Orara project site where Robert Schemenauer, Pilar Cereceda and Marcella Suit worked in the 1990s. The project is a learning experience for students from the University of Washington and potentially a new water source for the community in Peru.

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FogQuest part of Eco Future Exhibit

Museum exhibit will run until Sept. 2013

Aimed at families, Eco Future is a new museum exhibit that opened at the end of September 2012 in Abu Dhabi at Manarat Al Saadiyat (a major cultural venue in Abu Dhabi). Visitors will move through different zones based around lifestyle elements (Eating, Drinking, Enjoying, Moving) where they can, through playing games and interactive tools, design their city of the future. Each zone will also display innovative new products and technologies that can help us live more sustainably.

FogQuest has provided mesh for the construction and display of two small Standard Fog Collectors, as well as a photo of fog collectors in Nepal, for the Drinking Zone of the exhibit. We at FogQuest work to promote fog collection as an important and sustainable water production technology integral to a greener future, especially in arid regions such as the Middle East.

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New project – Colombia

New Project – Colombia – March 2012


Work, led by FogQuest volunteer Jose Manuel Molina, is progressing on a new operational project in Colombia. Jose Manuel and his colleagues have previously completed some initial evaluation studies. Jose’s colleagues Andres and Conchita have installed some new Standard Fog Collectors (SFCs) this month and report very good fog collection rates. Work is at and near the KM-18 site in the Valle del Cauca near Cali. The goal is to provide water for the village at KM-18 and measurements are being done by the students at the school there. FogQuest has provided mesh for the SFCs and also funds to purchase raingauges to monitor rainfall at the sites. We also provide advice and guidance through Jose to the group in Colombia and will be involved in the operational project when funding is obtained. Your donations to assist with this project would be very helpful

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New Evaluation Project in India – September 2011

New Evaluation Project in India – September 2011

FogQuest is assisting an Indian NGO called SOCIOserve to begin a fog collection evaluation in the mountains of Tamil Nadu where one SFC is now in Anavattan, which is a region just on the periphery of Poombarai.

Poombarai is a small village close to Kodaikanal. It is at an elevation of about 2200 m in the center of the southern part of the Indian sub-continent. Mesh has been sent to them for the construction of the SFCs and general guidance for the measurement program has been provided.