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In 2021, Honolulu’s Board of Water Supply (BWS) shut down the Halawa Shaft, Oahu’s largest water source. The Halawa shaft provides 20% of the water consumed in O’ahu neighborhoods stretching from Moanalua to Hawaii Kai — about 400,000 people.
The cause: fuel pollution from the US Navy’s dilapidated military infrastructure. These installations of soldiers and infrastructure are one of the consequences of US colonialism.
Oʻahu Water Protectors are a coalition of organizers and concerned community members fighting for safe, clean water.
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