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forward applications of modern tech- 

 nology to traditional settings. In the 

 northwestern provinces of China, for 

 instance, rural villages have long col- 

 lected the seasonal rains of summer and 

 autumn in communal "rain cellars" 

 for use during the rest of the year. But 

 traditionally the cellar walls have been 

 made of raw clay, so by the end of the 

 dry season the remaining water is often 

 muddy and contaminated. In recent 

 years a project known as "Mother's 

 Water Cellars" has financed 80,000 

 cement-lined cisterns in those rural 

 areas, providing longer-term, healthier 

 storage of a scarce resource. "Now 

 we can wash our faces at any time we 

 want," said one satisfied farmer. 



Even drier conditions call for higher- 

 tech solutions. Villages in Chile's Ata- 

 cama Desert, where years can pass with- 

 out significant rainfall, have survived 

 for the most part on water trucked in 

 from far away. But in the late 1980s 

 Chilean scientists began to experiment 

 with large nets made of polypropylene 

 mesh, which catch droplets of fog and 

 channel them into plastic pipes for 

 distribution [see "Hydro Tech, " on pages 

 54-55}. A square meter of net can 

 catch perhaps ten liters of water a day; 

 a system of such fog catchers can easily 

 provide water for a village of several 

 hundred people at little operating cost. 

 A trial project in the 1990s met with 

 great initial success. 



Unfortunately, local residents and 

 government officials let the system 

 fall into disrepair. By 2000, villages 

 that had been getting reliable water 

 from the nets were back to trucking 

 it in. That setback may be nothing 

 more than a minor stumble on the 

 path to self-sufficiency. Perhaps given 

 more durable webbing, and economic 

 incentives for locals to maintain the 

 nets and piping, Chile's fog nets could 

 become a permanent source of water 

 in the years to come. 



Many sustainable water-saving 

 tactics recognized in Dry are tra- 

 ditional systems that have been around 

 for centuries. In thejebel Akhdar moun- 

 tains of Oman, the parched hillsides 



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