Now the conflict includes opponents who do not want water to be used to fight fires, the governor said.
The opinions and desires of these 'opponents' is entirely irrelevant when it comes to emergency resources. The lives of those in immediate danger are far far more important than you getting to water your god damn plants.
Not sure how well this would work for Hawaiian cities, but San Francisco utilizes a network of cisterns in intersections that are ready to go if needed.
Old tech, but I’ve always found it a pretty brilliant idea.
That is for sure really cool!
San Francisco has a big historical reason for doing that though.
In this new era, almost EVERY city has a reason to put those or similar measures in. Fires are only getting more widespread and intense as areas dry out more and more and experience record heat. It's only a matter of time until another one threatens a major urban area.
I don't disagree, but they have the benefit of hindsight. And politicians are not very good at seeing reality until after the fact.
Fucksake
Surely that's murder
Seems like pretty clear-cut manslaughter at the least.
If you reduced the scale to one person on fire and someone standing next to him blocking access to a hose, it's undeniable that one party knowingly caused the other's death.
Uh... fighting over water... on an... island...?
Fresh water probably
It's why Hawaiians are constantly saying to tourists to stop coming.
Unfortunately their economy would collapse if that happened. Tourism drives that state.
Just tell tourists to BYB.
They would probably do better to invite tourists and use the money that comes in to build desalination plants. Israel has more than proven that any country with a coastline can have all the water they need, ten years ago everyone was predicting they'd be in water wars but now they've got such a good supply they're selling it to neighbours. Even easier for a state with so much available geothermal.
According to the sources, Manuel wanted West Maui Land to get permission from a taro, or kalo, farm located downstream from the company’s property.
We are sooo fucked
We can't save your house because the companies that own everything are fighting over which one of them owns the water
I feel like you could use salt water to fight fires and keep the fresh water for drinking.
That would be actually worse than letting the fire burn. You would absolutely ruin the land for plants for quite a while.
Natural fire break.
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