[images read: The Navy Water Crisis Could Halt New Construction On O‘ahu. If the water system can’t take on new users, it would be “catastrophic”, a construction industry lobbyist said. The U.S. Navy’s contamination of Honolulu’s primary drinking water source could trigger major impacts to the island’s economy and quality of life, including a potential moratorium on new construction, the Honolulu Board of Water Supply told Hawaii senators in a briefing on Monday. The entire island is already being advised to reduce its usage by 10%, but that voluntary restriction is likely just the beginning of the impacts of the crisis on the civilian population. Developers have started receiving letters from the BWS stating that the water utility can’t promise water will be available for new buildings. BWS may also implement mandatory water limits for residential and commercial users as well as major rate hikes for customers who don’t reduce their usage, officials said on Monday. BWS could restrict flow or shut water off entirely for those who don’t comply.“ /end]
the people always pay, in the end.
the navy poisoned the island’s water, and now restrictions have locals in a stranglehold, at the same time that soaring gas&electricity prices also have residents in a stranglehold to pay for the same jet fuel the Navy used to poison this water and cause this water shortage. the islands have been under water restrictions for decades: another 10%, that people will be monetarily penalized for if they can’t cut their water usage back enough, is absolutely fucking absurd, especially with price hikes ALREADY happening to compensate for the losses.
on a separate note, while tourism&military/DOD are the primary job options in Hawai‘i (in general)&O‘ahu (specifically) residents, construction is the primary job for LOCALS, especially KĀNAKA. it’s backbreaking labor, and i shouldn’t have to explain how Native Hawaiian men specifically got cornered into it as colonialism sunk it’s teeth into the islands&development picked up pace. i’m not exactly thrilled to be arguing in alignment with developers necessarily, but this (VERY conveniently for everyone but kānaka) fucks over one of the only major types of employment that isn’t entirely dependent upon the military or tourism.
finally, here are images of the military golf courses (ONLY the ones owned by the military) on the island of O‘ahu, all irrigated by O‘ahu’s naturally filtered water, all not being restricted (the bulk of these are owned by the Navy specifically, two minimum take water from the aquifer that the Navy poisoned):
Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course
Barbers Point Golf Course
Navy Marine Golf Course
Malama Bay Golf Course
Leilehua Golf Course
Walter J Nagorski Golf Course
Hickam Ke'alohi Par 3 Golf Course
&a rough estimate on what water usage to keep these courses (some literally closed to anyone but the military) open:
[ID: "Audubon International estimates that the average American course uses 312,000 gallons per day. In a place like Palm Springs, where 57 golf courses challenge the desert, each course eats up a million gallons a day.” /ID]
Hawai‘i is an illegally occupied nation, &her people are constantly either priced out of our home or dying in the streets because we cannot afford to live or leave.
Love it when corporations put me in a hole in the ground and torture me psychologically for two centuries. This is the American Dream
Fallout Games, Repeatedly: “The vaults were never meant to save anyone. The people who came out of the vaults were all extra-broken beyond what you’d even expect from generations of living in the vaults because the vaults were all designed as incredibly unethical psychological experiments.”
This Genius: “The vaults saved humanity!”
Imagine playing the Fallout games, walking through all the ruins of vaults, factories and millitary complexes. Imagine seeing all the literal skeletons of people who died from cruel experiments by millitary scientists, exploitation by capitalist businessmen, killed by malfunctioning robots put in place by said capitalist businessmen, or literally murdered by the government for daring to question America’s greatness.
Imagine seeing all of that and thinking, “Oh no, the communists killed them too? If only they had been more capitalist! That would have saved them. I’m very smart!”
