July 2010

After all the evidence and expert testimony presented during the Na Wai `Eha contested-case hearings in 2007 and 2008 on the minimum flows necessary to protect stream habitats and other instream values, which numbers did the state Commission on Water … Continued

If they dream – and who is to say they don’t? – Hawaiian gobies (o`opu) would certainly dream of free-flowing streams, of cool riffles and shaded, still pools. This, after all, is the habitat in which they evolved over millennia. … Continued

Earthjustice attorneys have sued the Maui Department of Water Supply over its acceptance of a final environmental impact statement (EIS) for a plant that would treat surface water collected from Central Maui streams and pipe it into the DWS system, … Continued

  Leaving a few East Maui streams largely intact when Central Maui is wet, but robbing them of all but thin, sometimes disconnected, ribbons of water when it’s dry does not, in commissioner Lawrence Miike’s eyes, meet the state Commission … Continued

  Former state Department of Health director Lawrence Miike, a physician and a lawyer, is the longest-serving member of the state Commission on Water Resource Management and was the lone dissenter in the commission’s recent decisions to amend the interim … Continued