In some parts of the world rain water is virtually non existent . Other methods of extracting water from the environment have to be though up. In Peru, the land of mountains and lamas, the people of Bellavista have been capturing the moisture of thick fog that that sweeps in from the Pacific ocean. Using large nets, much like how dew forms on a spiders web in the mornings, the water drips in to gutters which flows down to collection tanks for the village.

In addition to this small tress are planted on the hillside which are irrigate by the water and eventually themselves become fog catchers adding more sources of water.

Before the village had this source, water had to be truck in to the village at a cost many time more than those connected to the mains supply.

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