Table 1.
Summary and Reevaluation of Fog Water Harvesting Potential for Selected Locations and Potential Number of People Supported by a Single 40‐m2 Fog Collector During the Fog Season, Based on Minimum Water Requirements (7.5 L person−1 d−1; Gleick, 1996)
| Site | Yield L m−2 d−1 | Estimated population, supported by an LFC | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SFC | SFCM | SFC | SFCM | Source | |
| Cape Verde | 12 | 60 | 64 | 320 | (Sabino, 2007) |
| South Africa, Lepelfontein | 4.5 | 22.5 | 24 | 120 | (Olivier, 2004) |
| Nepal, Pathivara | 3.6 | 18 | 19 | 96 | (MacQuarrie et al., 2001) |
| Namibia | 2.4 | 12 | 13 | 64 | (Shanyengana et al., 2002) |
| India, Coimbatore | 7.7 | 38.5 | 36 | 205 | (Abhiram et al., 2015) |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 20 | 21 | 107 | (Gandhidasan & Abualhamayel, 2012) |
Note. SFC is standard fog collector, SFCM is a standard fog collector modified with a mesh that increases collection efficiency fivefold (Park et al., 2013), and LFC is a large fog collector (40 m2).