They harvest every drop of moisture from the corpses of the newly dead. They construct vast underground cisterns and canals to store and transport their painstakingly gathered water. They build “windtraps” and “dew collectors” to grab the slightest precipitation out of the air. To survive their permanent desert climate, the indigenous Fremen of Dune employ every possible technology. In the novel Dune, the scarcest resource is water, so much so that the mere act of shedding a tear or spitting on the floor takes on weighty cultural significance. Fifty years ago science-fiction author Frank Herbert seized the imagination of readers with his portrayal of a planet on which it never rained.
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