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Maui fires renew centuries-old tensions over water rights

LAHAINA, Maui — Shortly after the ignition of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, a developer of land around a threatened Maui community urgently asked state officials for permission to divert water from streams to fight the growing inferno.


Source: Hawaii Tribune Herald

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