Worries that firefighters can't access an adequate supply of water to combat flames in Hawaii are rekindling a longstanding fight over stream diversions in Maui. The Hawaii Attorney General's office is pointing a finger at a recent court ruling that required more water be kept in local streams amid drought and competing demands for use. The dispute connects the current blazes to an earlier court battle that pit Hawaiian activists against landowners after decades of diverting water to sugar cane fields. The Sierra Club said Monday that the attorney general’s office had exaggerated the effect of water diversion caps on firefighting.
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Hawaii s governor warned that scores more people could be found dead following the Maui wildfires as search crews go through neighbourhoods where the flames galloped as fast as a mile a minute and firefighters struggled to contain the inferno with what some officials complained was a limited water supply.
The number of deaths caused by the Maui wildfires stood at 99 Monday, a figure that is likely to increase as search crews comb neighborhoods where flames moved.
Hawaii’s governor is warning that scores more people could be found dead following the wildfires on Maui. His statement comes as search crews go street by street through neighborhoods where