{"id":2005662,"date":"2023-08-19T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T13:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-agency-led-by-water-equity-advocate-delayed-water-request-during-wildfire-to-consult-with-farmers-maui-company-says\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T13:48:17","slug":"state-agency-led-by-water-equity-advocate-delayed-water-request-during-wildfire-to-consult-with-farmers-maui-company-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-agency-led-by-water-equity-advocate-delayed-water-request-during-wildfire-to-consult-with-farmers-maui-company-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui company claims water request during wildfire delayed by water equity advocate-led state agency for consultation with farmers."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-agency-led-by-water-equity-advocate-delayed-water-request-during-wildfire-to-consult-with-farmers-maui-company-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2005662&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Maui Land Company&#8217;s Request for \u2064Water to Fight\u200b Wildfire \u200bDelayed by \u2062State Agency<\/h2>\n<p>In a \u2062recent\u2063 incident, a \u200cMaui land company faced delays in obtaining water to combat a raging wildfire on the island. The West Maui Land Company, responsible for managing agricultural and residential subdivisions and water jurisdictions, \u2062claimed that their request for \u2064water was \u200dheld up by a state agency \u2062that needed to consult with local farmers first.<\/p>\n<p>The company alleged that the delay in \u2062granting their request \u2064resulted \u2062in \u2062critical hours being lost, \u2064and by the time they received permission, it was too late to effectively fight the fire. The devastating wildfire claimed the lives of\u2064 111 people, including children, \u200band many areas still need to be searched as hundreds remain missing.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn\u200d Tremble, a representative of the West Maui\u200d Land \u2062Company, revealed that he had initially requested the \u200bstate agency to divert water from streams on August 8 as the fire\u2063 spread through the town of Lahaina. However, several hours passed before they received any response.<\/p>\n<p>Tremble expressed his frustration in a\u200c letter, stating, &#8220;We\u2062 anxiously awaited \u2064the morning knowing that we could have\u2062 made more water available to the fire department if our request had been immediately approved. We\u2062 cannot know \u2062whether filling our reservoirs at 1:00 p.m. (as opposed to not at all) would have changed the headlines when dawn broke\u2026 We \u2063know that we need to act faster during an emergency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Water Equity Controversy Surrounding the Deputy Director<\/h3>\n<p>The deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM), Kaleo Manuel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-agency-led-by-water-equity-advocate-delayed-water-request-during-wildfire-to-consult-with-farmers-maui-company-says\/\" title=\"Maui company claims water request during wildfire delayed by water equity advocate-led state agency for consultation with farmers.\">faced criticism\u2063 earlier<\/a> this week due\u2064 to past comments on &#8220;water equity.&#8221;\u200d A \u2064resurfaced \u2062clip on social media showed Manuel discussing the \u200cimportance of \u200dequitable \u2063water distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel&#8217;s statement in the \u200cclip emphasized\u2063 the need for true conversations about equity when it comes to sharing\u2062 water\u200c resources. However, this sparked\u200c controversy\u2062 and raised questions about his handling of the water request during the wildfire crisis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">M.\u2062 Kaleo Manuel, the Hawaiian official in charge of water resources is\u200b under fire for refusing to divert water from streams and release it to quell the raging Maui\u200b fires explains that water must never be used, but revered. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fc5lqZGS0Z\">pic.twitter.com\/fc5lqZGS0Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CatchUpFeed\/status\/1692087984034861314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The state&#8217;s website \u2064describes Manuel as someone who brings planning and indigenous knowledge to water advocacy and\u200b management \u200cin Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>The West \u200cMaui\u200b Land Company strongly criticized the CWRM in their letter, expressing their devastation and \u200ddissatisfaction \u200bwith \u200dthe agency&#8217;s handling of the situation. \u2063They lamented the fact that water was \u200cavailable in\u200d the\u2063 streams while \u2064their homes, businesses, lands, and lives were reduced to ash.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reassignment of Deputy Director and Investigation<\/p>\n<p>Following the\u200b controversy, Kaleo Manuel has been \u2064reassigned to a different\u2062 division within the\u2062 Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources. The department\u2063 clarified that the reassignment was not a\u2064 result of any wrongdoing on Manuel&#8217;s part, but rather to allow the \u2062Commission on Water Resource Management and the department to focus on assisting the people of Maui in their recovery from the devastating wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063department&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-desantis-beats-trump-in-2024-straw-poll-at-top-conservative-summit\/\" title=\"BREAKING: DeSantis Beats Trump In 2024 Straw Poll At Top Conservative Summit\">press release stated<\/a>, &#8220;This deployment does not suggest that First Deputy Manuel did anything wrong. DLNR encourages the media \u200dand the public to avoid making judgments until all the facts\u2063 are known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hawaiian Electric, the local utility company, is also\u200b facing scrutiny for allegedly prioritizing the development of its green energy network \u2064over necessary modernization and repairs of its electrical grid. The state attorney general has announced the \u200dinvolvement of a third party to investigate the response \u200cof \u200cstate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boston-globe-column-ron-desantis-is-white-supremacys-helicopter-parent\/\" title=\"Boston Globe Column: Ron DeSantis Is 'White Supremacy's Helicopter Parent'\">local government agencies<\/a> to \u200dthe destructive fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>statement that the delay in providing water during the wildfire was caused by a state agency&#8217;s need to consult with local farmers. The company, responsible for managing land and water in West Maui, expressed frustration over the critical hours lost due to this delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2005663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}