• Save Kaua‘i Springs water • Re-elect nobody • Avoid bicycling tragedy Save Kaua‘i Springs water For two years now I have been receiving home delivery of delicious, pristine, nutrient-rich water, in reusable hard plastic 5 gallon jugs from Kaua‘i
• Save Kaua‘i Springs water • Re-elect nobody • Avoid bicycling tragedy
Save Kaua‘i Springs water
For two years now I have been receiving home delivery of delicious, pristine, nutrient-rich water, in reusable hard plastic 5 gallon jugs from Kaua‘i Springs.
They pick up (and reuse) the empties, and leave me with my supply of the freshest, local Kaua‘i water, sourced just miles from my home, that I could imagine. The water hasn’t been transported for thousands of miles or from some other country.
I have avoided sending hundreds of plastic bottles to wherever to be turned into whatever. I am only one person. Now I have water delivered to my home for the same price I was paying to lift, lug and recycle endlessly.
It seems to be a win-win situation. I don’t add to this island’s plastic waste, I support a local self-sustaining company and local families working there, and I enjoy a healthy, pure Kaua‘i product. All the things we’re supposed to do in this day and age.
I am a little confused about all of the talk of “sustainability”, and then to read (“Kaua‘i Springs struggling,” The Garden Island, July 19) that the county wants to shut down Kaua‘i Springs Water because of some technicality. Here is an obvious case of “for or against” sustainability.
We have the gentle farming of a Kaua‘i resource, used for local consumption. I, for one of many, will be very disappointed and perplexed if the only company that supplies Kaua‘i’s homes and businesses with fresh, filtered, unadulterated pure mountain spring water is closed down.
Kaua‘i Springs is an important piece of a sustainability plan, but where is the water located? It’s on ag land. So does this mean that no one can farm this resource and keep it here? Tax us per gallon, if you must, for the privilege of having home-grown water.
Just as we want home-grown fruits and vegetables, and home-grown power sources. Water is us. We are blessed with abundance, and live in the shadow of Wai‘ale‘ale, the wettest spot on Earth.
Kaua‘i could lead by embracing our home-grown technologies and resources. We need a new template. This is a start, but not if it is shut down. Having Kaua‘i water delivered to Kaua‘i homes and businesses from an unending pure source seems a very good use of ag or open zoned land.
Water is even more important for food production. It should be considered an agricultural product anyway. Agriculture does not happen without water. Being given a special use permit for an activity not generally allowed on ag land would be a simple and good solution for Kaua‘i Springs Water to continue providing the service of delivering fresh local spring water to Kaua‘i residents. We have “value-added” in this case because they can bottle at the source.
The corporate interests are strong, and we may be a front line of the Water Wars for all I know. But outside corporate interests should only be considered after all of Kaua‘i’s current and projected future water needs are met. If we find we have excess, then we can share it with the world. I’d like to believe in our, and our children’s, future and that our representatives will take these thoughts into consideration when making such important decisions as shutting down the only commercial Kaua‘i water source business that we have.
Will I, as a Kaua‘i resident, at least be allowed a weekly trek up to the source so I can fill my water jugs? Who do I pay? Our water is our life. Save Kaua‘i Springs water.
Ginger Carlson, Kapaia
Re-elect nobody
I would like to respond to The Garden Island’s Friday story “Bynum and Asing trade barbs over unfairness and half-truths.”
I watched that County Council meeting in its entirely on television and could not believe it. I thought I was watching a new Hawai‘i sit-com. What a joke, our elected officials repeating themselves hours on end like a bunch of seniors in a nursing home.
Personal attacks by Chair Kaipo Asing acting more like Archie Bunker and Tim Bynum playing the part of the liberal meat-head from the old classic sit-com, “All in the family.”
I will not mention names but many of the council members can’t even speak proper English. “Dis, dat, dese and dose, and don’t forget dat tree come after da two.”
They don’t need a county attorney to review their bills in question; they need speech therapy and public speaking classes before they proceed.
What an embarrassment to even watch a Kaua‘i County council meeting. Re-elect nobody.
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
Avoid bicycling tragedy
I was informed of the new bicycle racks Kapa‘a High School is going to install on campus and am just wondering about the purpose of such metal structures.
I feel that the high school does not need such racks; it will be just wasted money that can be used for something more productive and safe for the students.
I am concerned about the students to get on a preventable accident. The traffic around the Kapa‘a High School is extremely high and I am completely opposed to this idea.
Please, parents, contact the school before a tragedy happens.
Goretti Perdue, Kilauea
