Maui Stream Flows Below Normal

Excerpted from a Maui News article

The latest report from the U.S. Geological Survey shows that stream flow in Maui County and statewide is below normal and mostly “much below normal,” the second-lowest category ranging from low to high.

This continues a trend that now extends back a full century, to when plantations and ranches began keeping records of stream flows around 1911.

Stephen Gingerich, research hydrologist with USGS in Honolulu, said it is hard to determine whether the century-long decline in Hawaii’s streams is more a result of changes in climate or in land use, although since the declines are statewide, that appears to implicate climat