Information on this award winning idea and the organisation behind it.

2006 Tech Museum Award winner FogQuest is a non-profit, registered charity dedicated to planning and implementing water projects for rural communities in developing countries. They utilize innovative fog collectors as well as effective rainfall collectors to make optimum use of natural atmospheric sources of water for domestic, agricultural and forestry uses.

Fogquest’s head office is located in Canada. A registered charity, donations can be made at www.fogquest.org and www.CanadaHelps.org.

Large Fog Collectors (LFC’s) are installed at suitable sites around the developing world, with over 70 countries and millions of people having the potential to benefit from this technology. Often LFC’s are used in locations where there is little or no water at ground level, and expensive road transport is the only other viable alternative. Fogquest have a number of highly-skilled teams who carry out research, evaluation and installation at the sites, testing first on a small scale before the installation of larger more permanent LFC’s.   Most LFC’s meshes, where the fog and dew is collected, are 4m x 12 m, giving an operational area of 48 square meters per LFC. A few years ago LFC’s at El Tofo, Chile – one of our featured sites, number 100. They collected over 100,000 liters of water per day at their peak. At the other end of the scale, the research carried out at Monterey, California was using 1m x 1m fog collectors at various sites. Please note, for comparison purposes in this exhibit all fog collection data has been scaled assuming each site had ten 4m x 12m LFC’s.