The fires and the devastation they wrought raise questions about whether Hawaii’s largest industry, the lifeblood of its economy, could also have contributed to the catastrophe by draining wetlands and drawing down the state’s water supply.
“Lahaina wasn’t always a dry, fire-prone region. It was very wet and lush, historically,” Kaniela Ing, an Indigenous Hawaiian who is national director of theMore recently, wetlands have been paved over to build hotels and vacation homes.
“In the last 60 years, more than 100 acres of Kihei’s wetlands have been gobbled up, which exploded from a tiny rural town to one of Hawaii’s busiest tourist destinations over the course of a single lifetime,”A resident looks around a charred apartment complex in the aftermath of the Lahaina wildfire. “There was just no water in the hydrants,” Keahi Ho, a firefighter who was on duty in Lahaina,.
The Times also noted that Hawaii has been struggling with water scarcity, both acutely due to the current drought and in recent years generally, asSome environmentalists say that outsize demand from the tourism industry has worsened water scarcity. Maui’s western coastline, where tourists cluster in beachfront hotels, receives less than 10 inches of water per year, but freshwater is diverted from the rainier inland areas to keep its manicured lawns “lush and green, with many pools, water slides and fountains,”
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