Crops, News In Chile’s Atacama, world’s driest desert, growing lettuces with fog By Reuters, Rodrigo Gutierrez June 24, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a net to catch drops of moisture from fog.