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Letter: Water from air: the Incas got there first

Published 30 October 2024

From Alex McDowell, London, UK

The idea of extracting drinking water from the air, as deployed in a Florida children’s hospital after recent hurricane disruption, isn’t new. The Incas, living in mountainous regions too high to get rain, channelled dew into cisterns and may have used fog fences to collect moisture that was hanging in the atmosphere. (19 October, p 10)

Issue no. 3515 published 2 November 2024

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