Editorial: Navy shouldn’t waste our water

TL;DR - The words “Ka Wai Ola” — water for life — is a slogan the Honolulu Board of Water Supply likes to use in describing its mission. Especially with summertime drought looming, water is precious, and not a resource to be squandered.

Yet that is what is happening, and at the worst possible time. Since February, the Navy has been pumping roughly 4.5 million gallons a day to help remediate contamination of the aquifer due to spillages from its underground Red Hill Fuel Storage Facility. The estimate of the water pulled from the Red Hill shaft tops 600 million gallons by now.

June 30, 2022: Editorial: Navy shouldn’t waste our water, Honolulu Star-Advertiser