Dear Mike
You said
>In Peru a coastal town set up nets on a mountain-side... why??
>
>Fishing for the clouds that roll in from the sea, hang the nets parallel
>to the coast, "catch" the water, and the run it down pipes to the town...
>
>In this case the function of a net wasn't "to catch fish" it was "to catch
>something, like a filter" And the clouds weren't a "source of occasional
>rainfall" they were "water very high up in the air"... what else is high
>enough to access the water?? "a mountain" - a high place not just "a
>geographic element"
A similiar things is being done in Namibia which has a similar climate and
geography, a cold north bound ocean current, coastal desert, dense fogs,
etc.
It might be interesting to know if these two innovations are independent
of each other or if it is the spread of an innovation between two
situations.
Jon C. Jenkins
Imaginal Training
Groningen, The Netherlands
www.noord.bart/~imaginal
Name: Jon C. Jenkins
E-mail: imaginal@pop.pi.net (Jon C. Jenkins)
Date: 08/03/95
Time: 17:42:04
--jon <jon_jenkins_imaginal_training@pi.net>
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