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Na Wai 'Eha by Mele Kalama-Kingma
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Na Wai 'Eha: Let the Water Flow
What is to be done?
After Decade-Long Legal Fight, State Of Hawaii Restores Na Wai ‘Eha Stream Flows
- Allow for more water flow
- For private businesses using water for profit, should they be charged a fee?
- Water conservation education
Background
- Over 150 years, the waters of Na Wai 'Eha have been diverted primarily for irrigated sugar cane
- Water was treated as private property
- 1973, Hawaii Supreme Court ruled water to be held as a trust by the state for the good of its citizens
- Petition to restore water flow filed in 2001, water restored in 2014
Water is a public trust
- Four trust purposes
- maintenance of water in its natural state
- domestic water use of the general public
- Native Hawaiian and traditional and customary rights
- reservations of water for Hawaiian home lands
Let the Water Flow
April 21, 2014
10 million gallons a day to the public
“For over 150 years, Hawaiian Commercial Sugar Company (“HC&S”), a plantation operated by Alexander & Baldwin (“A&B”), and Wailuku Water Company (“WWC”), the remnant of C. Brewer & Co.’s former Wailuku Sugar plantation (collectively, the “Companies”), had drained Na Wai ‘Eha’s waters for private profit. The parties settlement restores flow to all four of the streams, requiring up to around 25 million gallons a day (“MGD”) in the streams at all times.”
Press release from Earthjustice–which represented Hui o Na Wai ‘Eha and Maui Tomorrow Foundation
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