GREAT-10(2) COUNCIL-INITIATED CHARTER AMENDMENTS (RESOLUTION 22-119, CHARTER PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH THE EAST MAUI COMMUNITY WATER AUTHORITY) (GREAT-10(2))
Natural resources such as sun, wind, water SHOULD be controlled and distributed by local government NOT private businesses. Please establish The East Maui Community Water Authority. This is the right thing to do. Be Pono.
If the creation of the authority means there will finally be ample and consistent water in the streams that feed kalo growing regions and the lands of Hawaiian farmers, then I am in full support.
I strongly support this charter amendment. We can already see the effects of climate change and it’s only going to get worse. Water management is very important and should be done in a transparent manner, not in the interest of corporations
Please support the GREAT committee’s formation - it’s critical that community be involved in the distribution and maintenance of our ancient water distribution system. Would LOVE to see it on the ballot - thanx
I support the creation of an east maui water authority. For the people, natural habitat and ecosystem. Must be careful who is appointed to that board. Must be representative of the people not corporations.
I support the establishment of the East Maui Community Water Authority because I consider it vital for our community to take charge of the island’s water resources and become independent of private interest. Water is Life is not just a slogan, it is imperative to our well being and future generations will benefit from decisions we make now!
I support the charter amendment to create an East Maui Community Water Authority to put more transparent control over East Maui’s fresh water in the hands of the community who needs and uses that water rather than off-island corporate entities. I respectfully request that the GREAT committee assist this Authority creation by choosing to place it on this November’s election ballot.
How would the board be appointed? Term limits, that type of thing? If the new board is just a bunch of heads of companies anyway what’s the point? Then they’d just be using state/county money for their companies benefit anyway. Pardon me if I don’t know enough about the topic, but I support a community appointed board that can represent the public’s interest.
Nā Wai ʻEhā—“The Four Great Waters” of Waihe‘e, ʻĪao (traditionally Wailuku), Waiehu, and Waikapū) are a public trust; but since the sugar plantation era, various companies drained them dry for private profit. The EMI currently has amply good fresh drinking water. Let’s protect and manage this asset for today and tomorrow
I have lived in Maalaea for 6 years. I completely support this. Clean water is a public right and should not be managed by private entities. Thank you, Frank Russo, 50 Hauoli Street, Apt 107, Wailuku, HI. 96793.
Water rights in Hawai’i have traveled from being held in common in ancient Hawaiian culture, to its private ownership through the plantation era, and have returned to protection under the umbrella of the public trust doctrine in the State of Hawaiʻi’s Constitution. Let us not move backward by a return to its privatization.
As the demand for water increases, and its availability becomes more and more restricted due to improper resource allocation and climate change, our society will need to come to terms with the fact that we are not separate from our resources and their efficient management will be critical for our survival.
Furthermore, although the public trust doctrine safeguards water for the uses of our society, it still does not respect the intrinsic value of water in and of itself. This is a journey that we must undertake as a society. Only when a thing is respected and appreciated for what it truly is can we live in harmony with it.
Natural resources such as sun, wind, water SHOULD be controlled and distributed by local government NOT private businesses. Please establish The East Maui Community Water Authority. This is the right thing to do. Be Pono.
If the creation of the authority means there will finally be ample and consistent water in the streams that feed kalo growing regions and the lands of Hawaiian farmers, then I am in full support.
I strongly support this charter amendment. We can already see the effects of climate change and it’s only going to get worse. Water management is very important and should be done in a transparent manner, not in the interest of corporations
Please support the GREAT committee’s formation - it’s critical that community be involved in the distribution and maintenance of our ancient water distribution system. Would LOVE to see it on the ballot - thanx
I support the creation of an east maui water authority. For the people, natural habitat and ecosystem. Must be careful who is appointed to that board. Must be representative of the people not corporations.
I support the establishment of the East Maui Community Water Authority because I consider it vital for our community to take charge of the island’s water resources and become independent of private interest. Water is Life is not just a slogan, it is imperative to our well being and future generations will benefit from decisions we make now!
Aloha GREAT committee members,
I support the charter amendment to create an East Maui Community Water Authority to put more transparent control over East Maui’s fresh water in the hands of the community who needs and uses that water rather than off-island corporate entities. I respectfully request that the GREAT committee assist this Authority creation by choosing to place it on this November’s election ballot.
Mahalo nui,
Amy Fonarow (former Maui resident)
How would the board be appointed? Term limits, that type of thing? If the new board is just a bunch of heads of companies anyway what’s the point? Then they’d just be using state/county money for their companies benefit anyway. Pardon me if I don’t know enough about the topic, but I support a community appointed board that can represent the public’s interest.
DL
Gordon Lange
38 Wawali St.
Kihei, HI 96753
It is important that the county control Maui's water resources. As the climate catastrophe worsens this will become more important.
Aloha
Nā Wai ʻEhā—“The Four Great Waters” of Waihe‘e, ʻĪao (traditionally Wailuku), Waiehu, and Waikapū) are a public trust; but since the sugar plantation era, various companies drained them dry for private profit. The EMI currently has amply good fresh drinking water. Let’s protect and manage this asset for today and tomorrow
Fresh water is the blood of the islands.
It must flow naturally.and remain as free as the air we breath.
We the kanaka of this land deserve the right to our water. No one entity should lease or own it, but the people.
I have lived in Maalaea for 6 years. I completely support this. Clean water is a public right and should not be managed by private entities. Thank you, Frank Russo, 50 Hauoli Street, Apt 107, Wailuku, HI. 96793.
Support
Support
I support the agenda to create a kamaʻāina based Water Authority to regulate and manage water usage in East Maui.
It's so important that we have control over our water and its quality. Now is the time to secure it with the new charter amendments.
I support the new charter amendments. Let the streams flow on the east side again.... we need it for our agriculture.
I fully support this water rights amendment!
Water rights in Hawai’i have traveled from being held in common in ancient Hawaiian culture, to its private ownership through the plantation era, and have returned to protection under the umbrella of the public trust doctrine in the State of Hawaiʻi’s Constitution. Let us not move backward by a return to its privatization.
As the demand for water increases, and its availability becomes more and more restricted due to improper resource allocation and climate change, our society will need to come to terms with the fact that we are not separate from our resources and their efficient management will be critical for our survival.
Furthermore, although the public trust doctrine safeguards water for the uses of our society, it still does not respect the intrinsic value of water in and of itself. This is a journey that we must undertake as a society. Only when a thing is respected and appreciated for what it truly is can we live in harmony with it.
Ola i ka wai: water is life.