Fog in Seven Movements: Connecting Anti-Atlas Mountain Villages to Fog Water

The seven movements of fog in this article take us from (1) the ambiguous apprehension of fog, between the idiom of fascination and rejection of it as a phenomenon in the region of the Ait Baamrane, Anti-Atlas Mountains of Southwest Morocco, through (2) the women's detailed ethnographic experience of their water-chore, the prevailing and embodied experience of fog as its connotations fluctuate to become their in-household water-source, to (3) how the meteorological science describes and clusters fog, through (4) the imaginary possibilities fog invites, from melancholy to reverie, to (5) the technology used to capture and trap fog to turn it into water, the life-giving vital source for this dry region, to (6) the actual physical building of the largest fog-collection project in the world in what otherwise was still largely isolated mountain-villages prior to the building process where international groups worked alongside villagers, and finally (7) to thinking through the historical and political backdrop to drinking water harvested from fog, the immediate transformations brought by water-availability within the households, and how such a project is interpreted by community members who align the failures of the State to meet their needs with recent historical events alive in the local memory.