Water rights vs. water usage is one matter, but the thing that drives water through pipes is pressure. I watched a bit of one of the press conferences, and someone a few days ago said that the fire had caused damage to some of the pipes resulting in a loss of pressure.
Having driven all the way around the island, there are many, many bridges that cross small washes/arroyos. This is typically the location where underground water pipes are suspended underneath the bridges from one side to the other, exposing them to possible damage from a fire event. The fire heats up the water inside, which may be "trapped" by a nearby valve, and the pipe fails. Once a seam or a junction is compromised, there is no longer sufficient pressure along that line, and it may impact adjoining lines depending upon how they are fitted.
Good article and good questions. Everyone is being corrupted and pressured. I hate this.
But, seriously...
Why wouldn't one of those billionaires that owns too much land on those beautiful islands pay for a desalinization plant for each island? I mean, there is unlimited salt water surrounding them. It seems to me that this would be the first thing one would do to make life easier for all of them and to see the island and its natural flora and fauna flourish.
Gotta love on this article how shutting off the water for fire fighting is DIRECTLY compared to Hurricane Katrina where failing and run down public schools were replaced with charter schools that actually function... and the flooded projects that were going to be destroyed anyways were replaced with “gentrifying” townhouses that don’t look like shit. As if only black people live in squalor and whites live in fancy town houses. lmao. These people really can’t help but out themselves as racist- what is the % of blacks living in that same area? I can promise you in New Orleans the projects might have gone but those same people are still living there simply due to demographics of the city and the state.
But hey, everyday ignorance and racism is their calling card.
Also gotta love how they call it “disaster capitalism” instead of something more simple and accurate: “opportunism”.
Though the article never really does any digging into these “capitalist” elements feeding off the suffering of the people of Maui and asks who they all voted for, because I can promise you that they all voted Dem.
Water rights vs. water usage is one matter, but the thing that drives water through pipes is pressure. I watched a bit of one of the press conferences, and someone a few days ago said that the fire had caused damage to some of the pipes resulting in a loss of pressure.
Having driven all the way around the island, there are many, many bridges that cross small washes/arroyos. This is typically the location where underground water pipes are suspended underneath the bridges from one side to the other, exposing them to possible damage from a fire event. The fire heats up the water inside, which may be "trapped" by a nearby valve, and the pipe fails. Once a seam or a junction is compromised, there is no longer sufficient pressure along that line, and it may impact adjoining lines depending upon how they are fitted.
One more thing to make right when this shitshow is over!
Good article and good questions. Everyone is being corrupted and pressured. I hate this.
But, seriously...
Why wouldn't one of those billionaires that owns too much land on those beautiful islands pay for a desalinization plant for each island? I mean, there is unlimited salt water surrounding them. It seems to me that this would be the first thing one would do to make life easier for all of them and to see the island and its natural flora and fauna flourish.
This was arson to steal the land.
Gotta love on this article how shutting off the water for fire fighting is DIRECTLY compared to Hurricane Katrina where failing and run down public schools were replaced with charter schools that actually function... and the flooded projects that were going to be destroyed anyways were replaced with “gentrifying” townhouses that don’t look like shit. As if only black people live in squalor and whites live in fancy town houses. lmao. These people really can’t help but out themselves as racist- what is the % of blacks living in that same area? I can promise you in New Orleans the projects might have gone but those same people are still living there simply due to demographics of the city and the state.
But hey, everyday ignorance and racism is their calling card.
Also gotta love how they call it “disaster capitalism” instead of something more simple and accurate: “opportunism”.
Though the article never really does any digging into these “capitalist” elements feeding off the suffering of the people of Maui and asks who they all voted for, because I can promise you that they all voted Dem.