HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY -  AHI: Fire
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “Fire will never say that it has had enough.”

October 24, 2000: The United States Drought Monitor, an agency supported by and sent data from the USDA, the National Drought Mitigation Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), releases data showing drought risk for Maui. The risk band stretches from all of West Maui, across the southern part of the central valley, and down the Kihei cost, and up the Haleakala rise past Kula. The Monitor categorizes the drought as D1 (drought first stage) or D2 (drought severe), and predicts longterm impacts on agricultural lands and a sustained increase in risk for wildfires for these areas.

Now, seven years later, and less than a year after a devastating fire at Polipoli, the Maui County Council, developers, the Maui County Water Department, and residents are arguing over voluntary versus mandatory water cutbacks, the efficacy of giving new developments water when some residents have waited more than a decade for a water meter, and even watering park lands. Nothing has changed, nothing is decided.