Not on the Mokulele Highway there’s not.The May 23 edition of The Maui News carried dual headlines: one stating that the Mokulele Highway is almost completed and the other was, “Board proposes water use cutback.” For any one affected by the water cut back, please take a drive down the Mokulele Highway to see where your water is going. It flows 24-7 in copious amounts, all day, all night—hundreds of thousands of gallons flowing into the ditches, drowning the hand-planted and -replanted high-water consumption grass. The grass is in its second and now third planting, and it is over-watered and drowned immediately. (Brown is not a good color for new plantings.) The irrigation lines have been ripped up and redone.
Last November, I drove 4,000 miles from the southern tip of Florida to Seattle, and I have to say, the ugliest stretch of landscaped highway I have ever traveled was the eight-mile stretch to Kihei from the airport, overgrown with weeds, metal rebar rods and plastic pipes sticking up every where. Ugly highway, water wasted, tax dollars thrown away.
We all know the definition of insanity, right? Keep doing the same thing the same way over and over and expect a different result.
Water shortage? Not on the Mokulele Highway there’s not.