This solution would have negative disruptive impacts.<p>Harvesting fog would effect dependent microclimates & ecosystems, by taking water out of the air.<p>This also has an affect of causing a greater concentration of the water to be held by big institutions (corporations & government). This creates a social power imbalance, concentrates the economy to global institutions, & reduces autonomy of the people who live on the land.<p>Plundering & profiteering off the commons & reducing autonomy in the guise of humanitarian efforts.<p>---<p>re: better solutions, after all harvesting fog is a "solution".<p>Regenerate the ecosystems. Encourage small scale regenerative agriculture, that utilizes native plants in polycultures to restore ecosystems and stimulate local health, novelty, & economy.<p>Restoring local ecosystems has a positive effect on the local watershed.<p>Reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone caused the river to flow again & had positive fundamental impacts on the local ecosystem.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q</a>