‘We’re Going to Be Out of Water’: Navajo Nation Dying of Thirst
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/04/09/were-going-be-out-water-navajo-nation-dying-thirst-159948“When you’re living in the desert, you don’t expect it to get even worse,” said Russell Begaye, a Navajo Nation Tribal Council Delegate from Shiprock, NM. He pointed out that reservoir levels are dropping, farming plots are becoming sandier, and the rain- and snowfall have declined.
“Some of our leaders, and some of our people concerned about environmental issues are trying to make people aware,” he said. “It's going to get progressively worse, we know that. But as a nation, the government, we are simply not ready.”
According to the most recent national climate change assessment, southwestern tribes—such as the Navajo—are among the most vulnerable to impacts from climate change. Published two years ago, that study notes that Navajo elders have noticed declines in snowfall, surface water and water supplies. Certain sacred springs, medicinal plants, and animals have disappeared or declined and dust storms have increased. And while scientists can’t say for sure at this point that extreme weather is tied to climate change, there’s no doubt that the past two years have been challenging—and expensive.
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http://revolution-green.com/fog-catchers/
The Fog Catchers
... Developed over the past 5 years on the Canary Islands by Hernando Theo Olmo and Ricardo Gil, the “Water Gardens” are groupings of water-extracting towers for high volume and high quality water. Some of the planned uses are for forests, camping, fire suppression, agriculture, livestock, and human consumption.
According to the website; After years of experimentation and improvement, our NRP 3.0 fog collectors are currently the most technically advanced and productive in the world in the last 50 years in this sector, with a maximum collection of 1,074 liters / day and a life of more than 10 years.
The NRP 3.0 fog collector, have a huge collecting surface of 56 m2 into minimum space, only 1.6 m2, thus reducing the area occupied by 90% and minimizing the visual impact. Its three-dimensional structure gives great stability and prevents the loss of water out of the structure and also minimizes the influence of the wind direction in production of water. It also has a base designed to decant and filter the water before it passes to the tube system.
The materials used give the NRP 3.0 high strength, low weight and high durability.
Due to the rate cost-production, this system allows us to consider definitely the mists as another water resource, complementary to the existing resources, and this, in a practical, cost-effective, sustainable and innovative. Water from the mist can be used for qualitative and quantitative improvement of the waters from another origin, which can also help to reduce transportation costs, pumping or treatment of these, saving energy and minimizing pollution.
and research in recent years, so you may see California begin to implement setups. The "Revolution Green" link depicts some collector towers 200 meters tall! That's a design that was proposed for coastal Chile. While they also have earthquakes, I don't know what kind of engineering would have to go into such a structure for California's quakes.
Still, there are plenty of ways to harvest atmospheric water, and it's about time we started implementing them 
As I've never lived in any earthquake-prone areas, I don't really understand the engineering needs. We don't get ground-shaking issues here (Houston) but we do have to contend with high winds from hurricanes on occasion. We're also pretty wet these days, so probably don't have to worry about water issues for a while.
I thought it interesting in that article that they did some of their research in the Atacama Desert in Chile. It's one of the driest deserts in the world. If they can collect fog-water there, then it can be done pretty much anywhere
Since fog is rare there.
Chauvet Hurricane 700 Fog Machine
but it does make sense, considering their foliage and height
I do hope someone out there has looked into these devices. I feel like we should contact the Navajo Nation and let them know about the technology, if they aren't already aware...
you'll see it was tested for twenty years in Chile's Atacama Desert. That's the driest non-polar desert in the world. So, if they can make this technology work there, then the Navajo can make it work in their desert conditions 
the Navajo Nation, does NOT.
now I told you how often Winslow, Arizona gets fog. is that registering?
they didn't test the devices in areas with no fog or mists.
A fracking operation consumes several million gallons of water just for one go. What's left is toxic and useless for human (or other) use. Due to depletion in the process, it can't even be recycled into the fracking operation efficiently.
This is not the sole cause of water loss, of course, but it's a component.
