Honolulu Water Customers Asked To Reduce Water Usage

TL;DR - The Honolulu Board of Water Supply is asking Oahu water customers to reduce their water usage by 10% amid fears of shortages after well closures due to the Navy’s fuel contamination crisis.

Late last year, BWS closed the Halawa Shaft, which supplied 20% of urban Honolulu’s water, and two additional wells as a precaution after the utility learned that fuel from the Red Hill facility that serviced the Pearl Harbor area had tainted the military’s drinking water. BWS now relies on fewer wells to serve the 400,000 people who live between Moanalua and Hawaii Kai, and if they are overpumped, they will become too salty to drink.

March 10, 2022: Honolulu Water Customers Asked To Reduce Water Usage, Honolulu Civil Beat