I have lived in Kahului most my life, so listening to the words water rights kind of threw me off track when i first moved out to Kahakuloa a few years ago. We (roommates and i) were fortunate enough to have a rent a house where the water rights were already set forth, our landlord was smart enough to buy the water rights when he bought all his land. But a few months into living out there we noticed an abonded house at the top of a hill, come to find out its our landlords friend who owns it, he recently moved back to the states because he could not live in a house where there was no running water. Before building his house on the hill, he forgot to ask the most important qustion living out there, where does my water come from?? Instead he got stuck with a house that he can't even rent out because the water lines don't work.
I know many people along the way to Kahakuloa who buy water from multiple families, or families who have bought water rights. What can be done?? Families have paid fortunes to own water rights on that mountain and yet people still fight over it. So kaumaha
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