The merits of the application, not the applicant, are to be taken to account by the Land Board in deciding CDUAs. But to anyone trying to understand the Engelstad case, personality may be of more than passing interest. According to … Continued
The application of Indonesian businessman T.P. Liem to build a house on Hawea Point, Maui, provides an excellent illustration of the problems that emerge from a permissive interpretation of Land Board policy with regard to development in Conservation District lands … Continued
Mahalo! Before all else, Environment Hawai`i expresses its gratitude to the Commission on Water Resource Management. The commissioners’ concern with ensuring that the plan will address all needs, great and small, has put residents of the state in the Commission’s … Continued
The Honolulu Board of Water Supply says O`ahu residents should cut back. The daily newspapers exhort us to go easy on the lawn sprinklers, put a brick in the toilet tank, and make sure the faucet is not running as … Continued
While the Hawai`i Water Plan attempts to plan for future water use, it does not speak directly to the issue of water rights. However, water rights are of critical importance in that they limit options for future water use policy. … Continued
In 1988, the Hawai`i Legislature asked the Commission on Water Resource Management to study Hawai`i’s streams, with an eye to identifying those that “appropriately may be placed within a wild and scenic river system, to be preserved and protected as … Continued
One of the biggest compromises made to achieve enactment of the Hawai`i Water Code in 1987 was the provision for a system of designating so-called Water Management Areas. The original idea of the state Advisory Study Commission on Water Resources, … Continued
The notion of sustainable yield might fairly be said to be the most important concept in the Hawai`i Water Plan. It is defined in the Water Code as “the maximum rate at which water may be withdrawn from a water … Continued