Here's a clip of how M. Kaleo Manuel, the Obama leader who delayed water for five crucial hours.

Manuel claims, "water" requires true conversations about equity".

(And thank you to Vivek for sharing this story and fighting for the truth!)

Transcript:

The commission is responsible…to protect and manage all water resources in the state. One water is … looking at it from a holistic system perspective, and that’s not any different than how Hawaiians traditionally manage water.

You know, in essence, we treated — Native Hawaiians treated water as one of the earthly manifestations of a God… and so that reverence for a resource and that reciprocity in relationship was something that was really, really important to our worldview and well-being, right, living in an island and isolated from other civilizations.

So I think where it shifted to today or over time is that we’ve become used to looking at water as something which we use and not necessarily something that we revere as that thing that gives us life, right.

I mean, to me it’s a shift in value set, and if we can start to really look at how we as humans, in an island, can reconnect to that traditional value set. So really my motto is always like, let water connect us and not divide us. Like, we can share it, but it requires true conversations about equity.

No wonder the Hawaii state government is trying to cover up their actions before and after the fires. Blood is all over their hands.