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There is no pipe running to this spot. No well. No rain has fallen in four days. And yet there it is — water, beading down a fine mesh I propped up in the yard before bed, dripping into a trough below. Clean water, pulled out of the open air overnight while I slept, from a setup I built for about twelve dollars at one trip to the hardware store.
In this video I show you exactly how to build it: a piece of fine-weave shade-cloth mesh stretched drum-tight on a simple PVC frame, tilted at the right angle, faced into the wind, with a gutter trough below to catch what runs down. No motor. No electricity. No moving parts. You set it up before sunset, walk away, and come back at first light to see what the night gave you.
I am Amish, and I will be honest with you the whole way through. This is not my people's invention. It belongs to old peoples all over the world — the fog catchers of the Canary Islands, the dew structures of the desert, the modern fog nets of Chile and Morocco. I tell you that plainly. But it lives by the oldest rule my grandfather ever taught me — waste nothing, not even the

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