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Sierra Club’s Efforts to Support Maui Hikina
Although the Water Commission ordered water restored to some streams in 2018, it did not consider 13 other streams in Maui Hikina, and the Huelo area in particular. Later that year, the Sierra Club Hawai‘i…
Nā Moku & the fight for water in Maui Hikina
Families in Maui Hikina have been fighting for the return of their streams and their way of life since the 19th century. In 2001, kalo farmers started a new legal battle to restore streamflow, and…
West Kauaʻi and the Future of the Waimea River
In West Kauaʻi, the Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) is proposing a first-of-its-kind pumped hydropower and irrigation project that would take billions of gallons of Waimea River flows each year for the next 65 years…
