If the drought persists and you must find water, make a dew collector

In a lot of 3rd world nations, or simply places where it's very arid, dew collectors are one way of acquiring some water. It doesn't produce much, maybe a liter or two depending upon the humidity and the temperature difference between night and day and the dew point.

A collector is usually made of plastic sheets and then these drip into a vessel. Then the water is filtered for drinking, or it can be applied to plants.



I know it's a small amount of water. If it's not raining and you can't drill a well because there's bedrock, and the local water source is polluted, and the SHTF and there's no city water, then this is one way that I know of to find some water.

There's one engineer in India, and he uses a sheet placed upon the roof to collect the water, then it drains into the raingutters, then it's filtered. That water is used for all the drinking water for the children in that school.


There's other means like tappin trees for water, but that depends upon the tree and the temperature change affecting sap flow. Many like maple and birch are good tasting, but if you do it too often, you can harm the tree. Spiles are metal tubes that you can insert into the cambium and they have hooks to hang buckets on too. They sell them seasonally at farmers feed stores or places that sell hardware to farmers.

If you have a chiller, a refrigerated line, then you can cause condensation to collect. Quite a bit actually, but of course you can't collect water directly on the metal chiller pipes as it will impart the metal ions to the water and isn't healthy. That all implies you have electricity to run the chiller. You'd need to filter the water still.

All the other ways produce very tiny amounts of water. There's always someone who posts a video on the transpiration of water from plants, but this is in such scant amounts that it's not useful really. Not unless you'd have scads of bags collecting from lots of trees. The solar still also produces very miniscule amounts of water, although it's theoretically possible you'd need so much vegetable matter to create the condensation that it would require too much work. You'd expend more water than take in through work.

If you have a valid scientific method for condensing water, then post it here.

There is one device I know that uses a windmill that chills the blades and the blades are vertical to the ground. Then it drips water into a collector. I've never seen anyone do it cheaply, so it's way beyond what most people could MacGuyver.

Hopefully the drought will break.