August 1990

State Plans, A ‘Blueprint,’ and Much More The Division of Forestry and Wildlife, Department of Land and Natural Resources, is setting up an Environmental Information Bureau. It will focus on subjects that relate to the Natural Area Reserves System but … Continued

The Hawaii Water Plan is a state document, but most of its elements are not the product of any public agency. While Maui County prepared its own Water Use and Development Plan, the other plans were written by consultants: George … Continued

The notion of sustainable yield might fairly be said to be the most important concept in the Hawai`i Water Plan. It is defined in the Water Code as “the maximum rate at which water may be withdrawn from a water … Continued

One of the biggest compromises made to achieve enactment of the Hawai`i Water Code in 1987 was the provision for a system of designating so-called Water Management Areas. The original idea of the state Advisory Study Commission on Water Resources, … Continued

In 1988, the Hawai`i Legislature asked the Commission on Water Resource Management to study Hawai`i’s streams, with an eye to identifying those that “appropriately may be placed within a wild and scenic river system, to be preserved and protected as … Continued

Of Committees and Caucuses The July editorial, “At Capitol, Accountability is in Short Supply,” provides a very good insight into a serious problem in the process of enacting legislation at the Hawai`i Legislature. By a combination of the committee structure … Continued

The Honolulu Board of Water Supply says O`ahu residents should cut back. The daily newspapers exhort us to go easy on the lawn sprinklers, put a brick in the toilet tank, and make sure the faucet is not running as … Continued

Mahalo! Before all else, Environment Hawai`i expresses its gratitude to the Commission on Water Resource Management. The commissioners’ concern with ensuring that the plan will address all needs, great and small, has put residents of the state in the Commission’s … Continued