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Why the fuck are they filling pools with freshwater?
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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Surfing pools, no less.
Ironically in a place where some of the best surfing in the world can happen if you go to the ocean, which is all around.
To make it more attractive to tourists and easier to clean, I'd guess.
I hope the people can sue successfully, since state govt seems stacked towards colonialist endeavours.
BYOW, we use ours for the pool.
Aside from all the other issues, I can't even imagine the psychological toll it must take being aware that you're surrounded by non-potable water during a water crisis.
I can't speak for a long-lived crisis, but about 7 years ago I lived in the boondocks and got flooded-in. Had about a 75-ft radius of dry immediately around my house and the rest muddy flood water. Waters receded after a day or two, but my house relied on well water but had no power for 6 days to be able to pump it. The situation was...not great.
Cannot imagine the stress of that being a mostly permanent fact of life.
I mean, I'd just get on with creating my own filter system these days, how many thousands do I need?
Hawaii could just put in desalination plants! How much could that possibly cost?
Probably so much that this article didn't even discuss Pacific islands, but...
What's the cost if they run out of drinking water on the island?
What private corporation is going to agree to build enough desalination plants to do something about it quickly enough at a price the Hawaiian government can afford?
Unfortunately, we live in a capitalist system. That means the cost of them running out of drinking water is too fucking bad, just die.
Considering the mainland costs from the article of a 25 million gallon per day in NA ($60-$100 million) and a quick Google search says that Hawaii uses about 196 million gallons a day, if they just went to 200 million gallons of water in desalination plants, it would be somewhere between 480 million and $800 million.
Cheap!
Fuck Zuckerberg and fuck Oprah for making thise much worse. Leave Hawaii to the Hawaiians.
Don't forget Larry Ellison, who owns 98% of Lana'i.
True, but he's at least "letting" the families stay there and keeping most everyone else out.
Sovereignity for Hawaii!!!
The United States colonized Hawaii on behalf of rich plantation owners. The United States has already acknowledged that the occupation was illegal. You don't need to fly across the world to have a good time, and fuck up someone else's home.
healthy lo'i [water taro] system needs about 250,000 gallons per day per acre for it to be healthy
probably doesnt help at all. maybe grow things that are less water intensive?
I’d like to add some context as some people may take a misinformed meaning from this.
Lo’i are a small part of the deeply rooted native Hawaiian cultural tradition.
This culture integrates the idea of environmental responsibility so deeply that it is hard to describe in one comment.
For example, the Kingdom was divided into narrow triangles starting in the mountain and ending at the sea. Chiefs were responsible for the entire slice of the ecosystem. Fresh water was considered a sacred resource and being greedy would literally get you beaten to death.
Lo’i function to reduce erosion and the taro family was the staple crop of the islands before colonization. These work by constantly flowing water through them. You divert part of a stream, irrigate your shallow ponds, and return the water to the stream.
The rest of the article this comment doesn’t mention is how rainfall is becoming more sporadic - more dry days, and more heavy rain days where the water has no time to enter the watershed and just pours into the ocean.
While there is absolutely merit in adapting our current techniques to current conditions, this is ignoring the brutal colonization that killed over 90% of native Hawaiians and to this day diverts the profit produced by local labor back to the mainland while burning every last resource down.
There used to be entire forests of sandalwood there.
Tax the billionaires