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The Mount Everest nets fetch 60% of fog water overshadows the blown in wind. thirst for clean Schemenauer had already water in Nepal, a launched a successful project in country of 26 million people. Chile eight years ago, and has Kevin Kowalchuk, an since introduced the technology IMAX research and develop in Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, and ment designer living in Oakville, was struck by the lack most recently, Nepal. of clean water in the villages `T hey're harvesting about located at the base of the 11,000 litres a day for a village 29,035 ft. mountain during his of about 300 people (in Chile)," first trip to Nepal in 1995-1996 said Pereira. "This has become a very successful pilot project." for the IMAX production And, in a dry area of Peru, 20 Everest. He found people, especially large fog nets are collecting enough water to keep a children, scooping up contami 450,000-litre reservoir full. nated water wherever they found it. "Robert has taken his inven tion and spearheaded the water Although Nepal has plenty from fog research and collec of fresh water sources, access ing them is difficult because of tion network around the world, its mountainous terrain. In addi looking for places where fresh tion, most of its mountain vil water is hard to come by, such lages are located on ridges, far as Saudi Arabia and the Canary from roads and too far from Islands." streams, rivers and wells. Having been to Nepal for Gathering water is the work of IMAX, Kowalchuk immediate ly decided to get involved. women and children, who must walk hours, each day, to collect it. T W " TF" owalchuk and "Kevin got to know and fell Pereira, along with Rick Taylor in love with the people of Nepal," said his wife Floriana B and Don Pereira, who also works at Emerson, are co IMAX as a marketing co-ordifounders of the Nepal Water nator. from Fog Committee (NWFC), Their living room walls are an Oakville-based organization, lined with Kowalchuk's stun and one of many working to harvest water from fog using ning black and white pho tographs of the people he's met, nets. Taylor is a chiropractor from Fonthill, Ont, and has gar proof that the couple have been touched by their plight. nered much community support for this undertaking. Emerson is "There is a huge need for a teacher in Simcoe, an area clean water in Nepal," he said. where the nets are used for Kowalchuk got involved market gardening. after watching a TVOntario documentary titled Miracles in "When I first went to Nepal, the Mist, about Robert I looked around the villages Schemenayer, a retired research and started looking for ways to physicist from Environment help these people." (See 'Nepal e xh ib it. . . ' page B3) Canada, who discovered that B E A V E R F O C U S E D IT O R By W ilm a B lo khu is r Top right photo by Ian Ross, others courtesy of Kevin Kowalchuk Kevin Kowalchuk sits with his dog Tenzie: above him are two of the photos he's taken of the people in Nepal, part of his dis play at McCutcheon's. TOP LEFT: from left, Kevin Kowalchuk, Rick Taylor and Keith MacQuarrie at a test site near Danda Bazar in eastern Nepal; LEFT, Rick Taylor (right) at the same test site; and BELOW, a piece of fog catching net. 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