Wai (Fresh Water)

I don’t understand why we don’t use the water we already have rights to, not simply under the largely ignored Public Trust Doctrine, but by the relatively unknown and often forgotten Memorandum of Understanding by the County of Maui and Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar/East Maui Irrigation.

Hamakuapoko would take a team of water engineers, microbiologists and chemists on duty monitoring 24/7 to assure the safety of that water.

If we had used the streamwater available through the County’s 2000 Memorandum of Understanding with A&B, Inc. a decade ago,  the… more

Maui Tomorrow urges the County Council and Mayor to adopt Councilmember Cochran’s plan rather than adding Hamakuapoko well water to the potable supply.