'We've often been viewed as expendable:' Failed infrastructure is to blame for Honolulu's water crisis

TL;DR - Consider what's happening in Hawaii. Just last week, the state's Department of Health ordered the Navy to take immediate action to clean the drinking water at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, following the discovery of a petroleum leak at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, near Honolulu.

"Places like Hawaii and Guam and Okinawa and Puerto Rico are treated as marginal, as if we can be sacrificed," Kyle Kajihiro, a lecturer in geography and ethnic studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, told CNN. "This is why residents see this pattern of environmental destruction and contamination."

December 9, 2021: 'We've often been viewed as expendable:' Failed infrastructure is to blame for Honolulu's water crisis, CNN