The state Commission on Water Resource Management has asked Hawai`i County to front-load its assessment of the impacts that future water withdrawals in Waimea and Keauhou will have on native Hawaiian traditional and customary rights and on the environment. In … Continued
Posted 11/30/2012 The Intermediate Court of Appeals has sided with a group of Hawaiians living in East Maui who had sought a contested-case hearing over the state Commission on Water Resource Management’s decision to amend stream flows in the area. … Continued
Posted 08/28/2012 The Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation has won again. On August 24, the Intermediate Court of Appeals found that the citizens’ group Lanaians for Sensible Growth (LSG) — a client of the NHLC — can appeal a 2010 Land … Continued
Posted 7/02/2010 The U.S. Geological Survey recently published its report on the impacts that stream diversions and other structures to control stream flows have had on Na Wai `Eha, the four major streams flowing down the eastern slopes of the … Continued
The state Commission on Water Re-source Management has gutted its own efforts to keep the Maui Department of Water Supply from over-pumping the Waihe’e aquifer. Instead of having a trigger in place that could result in automatic designation of the … Continued
The fever to wring as much money as possible from the fallow sugar and pasture lands of picturesque West Maui is putting the squeeze on the county’s Department of Water Supply. Anticipated development on that side of the island is … Continued
The Maui Board of Water Supply has signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey to develop a numerical model that will help the county better understand groundwater movement and the effects of different water withdrawal scenarios in a … Continued
East Maui Water Dispute Heats Up With Hearing Officer’s Recommendation “By the time water gets to our patch, it’s warm,” says Beatrice Kekahuna, age 74. Warm water may be good for bathing, but for Kekahuna and other East Maui taro … Continued
For more than a decade, an illegal diversion has shut off water to Hakalaoa Falls, one half of a famed pair of cascades that plummet down a near vertical 1000-foot-high cliff at the back of Waipi`o Valley. The diversion dates … Continued
Jan Stevens, who championed the public trust doctrine while employed with the California Attorney General’s Office and working on the celebrated Mono Lake case, spoke in Honolulu last fall at a conference on the public trust sponsored by the University … Continued