Kat Vand has been in the news ever since the power went out. Hunter, dancer, actress, painter, sprinter, survivor, Kat is a comet whose stories streak across the shattered towns without electricity and without law. 

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Kat is the last in a long line of Watergirls in her family.

Katura Vand made her reputation as a model before the lights went out. "I was comfortable with my skin, always happy to be a fish out of water, and all the photographers wanted to shoot the small webs I have between my toes, but this was off limits," she said in an interview before the Sun storm hit the Earth. "You can shoot every inch of my body, but not my webbed toes."

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But even as a model, Kat had a secret life, chasing the executives who spilled toluene and arsenic into rivers and ponds across the planet. "Somebody has to pay, but there are no rules to keep business people accountable for their mistakes with water, and that is in my DNA," she says. "I will protect water and put poison into the lives of the people who would waste water, or pollute it."

Katura's names are water-based: Ura is Basque for water, and Vand is Danish for water. Her middle name is Mayi, a Bantu word for water, and it fits her well since was born to Europeans living on the Congo, where they maintained a waterway for a reserve dedicated to the Bonobo chimpanzees. "I am happy in Bilbao," says Kat, "And I guess I can get comfortable in Copenhagen if I have to, except for the pollution and racism, but I am happiest in the jungle. The Congo, the Amazon, the Mississippi, put my toes in these and I am smiling."

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She dreamed of romance like every teenager, and began to paint the scenes in her mind, of how love would be when it found her.

"How could I convey what I felt about falling in love and catching a lover or being caught by passion? I spent hours every day trying to paint these scenes, and I would pose myself for the paintings I would make, even if it meant that I would play the role of both lovers."

-- from an interview in the Basque magazine, Bilbo

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But a chemical spill in the Arctic got her attention. And she spent her savings to travel to the site of the accident and measure the exact quantities of arsenic, which differed from the government reports.

She was at a shoot when the news of the Arctic Arsenic disaster broke. "I remember hearing the ship had sunk suddenly, and I was in a panic. An ecosystem or Orcas and Narwhales would be killed, I knew, and I wanted to know the exact amounts to the milliliter of what was in that water and how long it would stay there."

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Modeling suddenly seemed like an impotent game, and the risks she was taking in the studio seemed silly compared to the daily abuse of Mother Nature. But what could she do?

Elephant Rock, where Kat Vand conducted her water analysis of arsenic spilled by the Danish waste management company BASTUR.

Kat went to a conference in Copenhagen with the results of her water work, and found herself ogled as a model, rather than as somebody with critical information about the effects of the chemical spill. "One guy just pinched my ass on the elevator and I was outraged. I went to his room a few hours later, after finding out he worked for BASTUR, and asked him if he wanted to see me naked, and he looked like a drooling dog  when he understood what I was saying, and he's inviting me into his suite, come in come in, and I won't tell you how far I went but he was in the hospital that night and for four more days, and to this day he walks a bit funny, his spine slightly out of place."

Kat Vand was charged with assault for her attack on Jan Laudrup, the Vice President of BASTUR. She was sentenced to a year of prison as her lawyers argued self defense. She had witnesses from the elevator who had seen Laudrup's ass-pinching and her outraged response. "This does not give any woman the right to crack a man's back in half," declared the judge to the media after the trial. This comment set off a huge debate on social media, as Kat prepared for prison. 

This is Kat Vand on the lam, hiding somewhere unknown a few weeks after her trail for assault. She refused to report for incarceration, and left Denmark secretly the day her sentence was declared. 

A few weeks after her trial the executive of an aluminum plant was found drowned in the Norwegian Sea. On his cellphone was found a number with the name Katura V as his last call. Interpol was interested and put out a bulletin asking for authorities to apprehend the model Kat Vand if she were found at any border crossing.

A music video for the Swedish pop band Balou hit the Internet and became a bestselling song, starring the vanished Kat Vand as a dancer with a dagger in a silhouetted art piece. She seemed to be mocking the officials who were searching for her.