it s my our family and like many other families, they were forced to leave their ancestral land. maybe work for the same plantation owner who took your water. right? even after the u.s. apologized and 93 for the overthrow of the kingdom of hawaii and even as 1/landscapes turned flammable, it wasn t until farmers like this son, who fought in court for over a decade that water rights were returned. even in our oceans because freshwater speeds the fisheries and grows the seaweed for the small fryer and for our turtles and other imported fishes. that s all coming back now that the waters are flowing into the ocean. then came the fire and in written complaints from the powerful west maui land company insinuating that firefighting efforts were hampered because a single hawaiian farmer couldn t be reached for permission to diverge extra water. in this particular case, it wouldn t have made any difference. you have to understand that the company system is not tied,